03268cam a2200373 4500 233664909 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781481578318 1481578316 f5fa5766-2f34-403e-adf1-25dbcb40d411 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9781982439408 106108 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib St. John, Jeffrey. A Child of Fortune [Libby Audiobook] : A Correspondent's Report on the Ratification of the U. S. Constitution and Battle for a Bill of Rights. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2007. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 291MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 291MB. HTML:<p>In this exciting audio production, prize-winning journalist and historian Jeffrey St. John simulates day-by-day reportage to make you a firsthand witness to the 1787–1788 political battle to ratify the US Constitution. Discover how close both sides of the debate came to resorting to violence and rigged elections and witness Patrick Henry's challenge to a pistol duel at the Virginia convention. Observe the Constitution's sanction of slavery and the delegate revolts it produced, Massachusetts Governor John Hancock's secret deal to deliver his state in return for support of his candidacy for the presidency, and how the soft-voiced James Madison defeated America's greatest orator.</p> <p>Vastly entertaining, this book is both a popular history and an important contribution to the study of the founding of the American Republic.</p>. A follow-up to the author's CONSTITUTIONAL JOURNAL, this is an account of the ratification of the American Constitution in the style of contemporary journalism. It was an exciting occurrence that still reverberates throughout our world and that will continue to do so throughout the new century and beyond. But not, alas, on the lips of narrator Riggenbach, who drones through the whole thing as if in a hurry to get home. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:11. Riggenbach, Jeff. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=f5fa5766-2f34-403e-adf1-25dbcb40d411 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/106108-AChildOfFortune.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/106108-AChildOfFortune.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F5FA5766-2F34-403E-ADF1-25DBCB40D411&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/106108-AChildOfFortune.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/106108-AChildOfFortune.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F5FA5766-2F34-403E-ADF1-25DBCB40D411&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)