America in war, power, and revolution - 9798197418739 - the making of the united states constitution: george washington, the philadelphia convention, and the fragile compromises that forged america's ... in war, power, and revolution, band 4) von myers, eva (3 Ergebnisse)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does it truly take to build a nation from nothing, and how close did America come to never existing at all In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men locked themselves inside a sweltering Philadelphia hall, swore oaths of secrecy, and set out to do something the world had never seen. They had… no guarantee of success. They had no perfect blueprint. What they had was a crumbling republic on the edge of collapse, a population seething with anger, and the crushing weight of a question no revolution had ever answered: how do you build a government worthy of the freedom you just died for The Making of the United States Constitution takes you inside the room where it all happened. Behind the celebrated document that shaped modern democracy lies a story most people never hear. A story of desperate compromise, bitter rivalries, near-collapses, and the fragile decisions that either saved or condemned millions of lives.Few people know how close the entire convention came to falling apart. Few know that the man at the center of it all did not even want to be there. And fewer still reckon honestly with the moral failures sewn into the very fabric of the founding document, failures whose consequences echoed for generations in blood and suffering.What you are about to discover will change how you see American democracy, its genius, its contradictions, and the real human cost of its creation.Inside these pages, you will follow George Washington from reluctant retirement to the chair of the most consequential political gathering in American history. You will witness the fierce battle between large and small states that nearly destroyed the convention before it produced anything. You will sit inside the room where enslaved human beings were reduced to a fraction, where the seeds of civil war were quietly planted in the name of political necessity. And you will watch a fragile new government fight, state by state, for the nine votes it needed to exist at all.This book is for you if you want to understand where American democracy truly comes from, if you believe history is more powerful when told honestly rather than selectively, if you are fascinated by the decisions that shaped the modern world, and if you want a reading experience that feels urgent, human, and impossible to put down.The oldest living constitutional democracy on earth was not inevitable. It was argued into existence, compromised into shape, and held together by decisions made under impossible pressure.
