Great rehearsal
- New York Popular Library 1961
- 128 p.
In the late spring of 1787, a handful of men entered Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Daily for four months they came and went, guarding the secrets of their conferences as staunchly as the armed sentries guarded the room in which they conferred.
In the early fall of that same year they gave to the Continental Congress and to the separate states the fruit of their efforts-a document born of desperate necessity, achieved by many compromises, and des tined to become one of the two or three most potent written instruments in all the world: The Constitution of the United States. As we read this story of the one being made from the many, it is impossible to forget the headlines of our own day.
In the troubled world of today it becomes clear why Carl Van Doren has called this work THE GREAT REHEARSAL.