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We realize - and love - the storyplot of the North american Trend, from the Declaration of Freedom to Cornwallis' defeat. But our first federal government was a tragedy, and the united states was in an awful crisis. So whenever a band of men traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to save a nation at risk of collapse, that they had no great anticipations for the assembly that would make background. But all the ideas, arguments, and compromises resulted in a great thing: A constitution and a federal government were born that contain surpassed the founders' most significant hopes. Revisiting all the original documents and using her profound knowledge of 18th-century background and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh go through the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they encountered, and the changing times they resided in. Berkin transports the listener into the hearts and brains of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited anticipations of success.