Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter
Novus Ordo Seclorum, The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
Forrest McDonald
A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
Washington: The Indispensable Man
James Flexner
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787
Catherine Drinker Bowen
American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and Diverse People United,
John Harmon McElroy
The Great Rehersal: The story of the making and ratifying of the Constitution of the United States, Carl Van Doren
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison, Bicentennial Edition, with an Introdcution by Adrienne Koch
The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Edwin Meese II