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Birth of the Nation
Bickford, Charlene Bangs; Bowling, Kenneth R.
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Description for Birth of the Nation
Paperback. Birth of the Nation is the first comprehensive treatment of the work of the critically important Congress which converted the words of the Federal Constitution of 1787 into action and brought to a close the American Revolution. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 256 x 8. Weight in Grams: 282.
Birth of the Nation is the first comprehensive treatment of the work of the critically important Congress which converted the words of the Federal Constitution of 1787 into action and brought to a close the American Revolution.
Birth of the Nation is the first comprehensive treatment of the work of the critically important Congress which converted the words of the Federal Constitution of 1787 into action and brought to a close the American Revolution.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780945612148
SKU
V9780945612148
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About Bickford, Charlene Bangs; Bowling, Kenneth R.
Charlene Bangs Bickford is co-editor and director of the First Federal Congress Project and is former president of the Association for Documentary Editing. Kenneth R. Bowling is co-editor of the First Federal Congress project and has publisheds several articles on the political issues which divided Americans during the decade following the Revolutionary War
Reviews for Birth of the Nation
Birth of the Nation is an impressive piece of serious scholarship. . . . Bickford and Bowling have produced a volume consistently easy and enjoyable to read. Procedural details and constitutional implications seem alive and relevant rather than of merely antiquarian interest. The introductory chapter, moreover, provides perhaps the best short discussion I have read concerning the constitutional issues and developments from 1774 to 1790.
Raymond C. Bailey
Journal of Southern History
It is the best available introduction to the men and measures of the First Congress and it can be read with great profit by all who study and teach American history or American government.
Patrick J. Furlong
Journal of the Early Republic
"scholarly and interesting..."
The Washington Post
The finest short account of the origins of Congress that I have read. It could only have been written by scholars who have devoted years to the study of the First Congress as authors Bickford and Bowling have done.
Raymond W. Smock, Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives Both intelligent general readers and specialists in American history will enjoy and learn from this incisive account of the First Federal Congress. . . . Birth of the Nation is a valuable and a necessary book.
Richard B. Bernstein, Historian, New York City Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution The book is a marvelous summary of what was arguably the most important two years in congressional history. . . . Birth of the Nation is simply chock-full of interesting examples that amply demonstrate just how important that first Congress was and just how little many of us—even many historians—know about that Congress.
James T. Currie
The Public Historian
Raymond C. Bailey
Journal of Southern History
It is the best available introduction to the men and measures of the First Congress and it can be read with great profit by all who study and teach American history or American government.
Patrick J. Furlong
Journal of the Early Republic
"scholarly and interesting..."
The Washington Post
The finest short account of the origins of Congress that I have read. It could only have been written by scholars who have devoted years to the study of the First Congress as authors Bickford and Bowling have done.
Raymond W. Smock, Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives Both intelligent general readers and specialists in American history will enjoy and learn from this incisive account of the First Federal Congress. . . . Birth of the Nation is a valuable and a necessary book.
Richard B. Bernstein, Historian, New York City Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution The book is a marvelous summary of what was arguably the most important two years in congressional history. . . . Birth of the Nation is simply chock-full of interesting examples that amply demonstrate just how important that first Congress was and just how little many of us—even many historians—know about that Congress.
James T. Currie
The Public Historian