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To: Sam who wrote (29062)	2/19/2012 5:30:40 PM
From: Sam	1 Recommendation Respond to of 223279

OT-- I said I wouldn't do this, and I doubt anyone will bother to follow up on it, but here is a brief reading list for anyone who really wants to learn about the period between (roughly) 1780 and 1800: Clinton Rossiter, Jack Rakov, Robert Dahl, Gordon Wood, Lance Banning, Joseph Ellis, Dougalss Adair are all good sources for information about the Constitutional period. Ellis's Founding Brothers is probably the easiest for general readers with an undergraduate education along with Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution (both talk about the period generally rather than the convention itself), Rossiter's 1787: The Grand Convention focuses on the convention , Adair's Fame and the Founding Fathers and The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy go into the philosophic background and Dahl's How Democratic is the American Constitution? discusses some of the political structures set up by the document from a 21st century POV. Banning has written a nice biography of Madison.