Gwinnett County Public Library
&
The Gwinnett History Museum

announce the next selection of the
History Book Club:

Monday, November 16, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Gwinnett History Museum
(Lawrenceville Female Seminary Building)
455 South Perry St., SW
Lawrenceville

For more information, please contact the Museum at:
gwinnetthistorymuseum@gwinnettcounty.com
or
770-822-5178

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O Stewart


George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. "The Summer of 1787" traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world's first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention's sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the often painful process of writing the Constitution.