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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution.(Book review)

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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution David O. Stewart Simon & Schuster www.simonsays.com 349 pp., $27

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A line in one of Sam Cooke's 1960s pop songs--"don't know much about history"--could apply to much of the American public. Until the last 20 years or so, the average citizen's grasp of American history centered largely on what he or she retained from political speeches, cursory classroom lessons, and memorabilia seen in government buildings and museums. Given the power of history to cultivate higher-order thought and depth among the citizens of a democracy, we were the poorer for it.

Thankfully, storytelling techniques have been infused into history more recently, leading to a corresponding increase in public interest. Our history is suddenly more relevant, alive, and accessible than ever before.

Wresting control from stuffy, stilted academics, popular historians such as David McCullough and Stephen Ambrose have moved the general public far beyond apocryphal tales of "cannot tell...

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