Madison's Hand : : Revising the Constitutional Convention / / Mary Sarah Bilder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• VerfasserIn: Bilder, Mary Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 18 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; About Madison's Notes --; Introduction --; I. Notes Before the Constitutional Convention --; 1. The Genre of Legislative Diaries --; 2. The Practice of Working Notes --; II. Learning to Keep a Conventional Diary --; 3. The Success of the Opening Days --; 4. Struggling with Speeches --; III. Recording the Constitutional Convention --; 5. An Account of Failed Strategies --; 6. Acquiring a New Role --; IV. Abandoning the Notes --; 7. The Complexity of Drafting --; 8. The Convention's Changing Relevance --; V. Completing the Notes --; 9. Correcting and Revising the Notes --; 10. The Infl uence of Mr. Jefferson --; Conclusion --; The Evidence. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index --; The Evidence --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674089006; 9783110439687; 9783110438635; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674089006
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mary Sarah Bilder.

No document depicts the Constitutional Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with the force of Madison's Notes. But how reliable is this account? Drawing on digital technologies and textual analysis, Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revised to a far greater extent than previously recognized.