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Full title: Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Published in New York by Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. as part of The American Past series in 1986. This edition includes a new introduction by Henry Steele Commager and illustrations by Warren Chappell.

Follows the debates, compromises, and personalities behind the drafting of the United States Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787. 

Includes illustrated endpapers showing Washington’s annotated copy of the Constitution and the Convention voting record kept by Major William Jackson, both identified as from the National Archives. 

The book was originally published in 1966 and later issued in this 1986 slipcased Book-of-the-Month Club edition. 

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