Decision in Philadelphia, Christopher Collier
Decision in Philadelphia, Christopher Collier
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Decision in Philadelphia
The Constitutional Convention of 1787

Author: Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 13 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2012

Synopsis

Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of eighteenth century America not only come alive, but the very human qualities of the men who framed the document are brought provocatively into focus—casting many of the Founding Fathers in a new light. A celebration of how and why our Constitution came into being, Decision in Philadelphia is also a testament of the American spirit at its finest.

About Christopher Collier

Christopher Collier is an author and historian. He attended Clark University and Columbia University, where he earned his PhD. He was the official Connecticut State Historian from 1984 to 2004 and is now professor of history emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He is the brother of James Lincoln Collier, with whom he has written a number of novels, most of which are based on historic events. His books have been nominated for several awards, including the Newbery Honor and the Pulitzer Prize.

About James Lincoln Collier

James Lincoln Collier has written many books for children, including Give Dad My Best and Planet out of the Past. He has also contributed more than five hundred articles to the New York Times Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and Boy’s Life. His honors include the Kidger Prize for Teaching, the Jane Addams Peace Prize, and the Newbery Honor.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on November 15, 2023

Deciding that the young United States of America needed a stronger central government was difficult enough; actually bringing about that outcome seemed impossible. And yet that seemingly impossible goal was achieved by 55 often quarrelsome delegates, as Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier......more

Goodreads review by Dee on October 02, 2021

Audible.com 13 hours and 3 min. Narrated by Bronson Pinchot (A) A great look at what went on during the not summer months inside Independence Hall while the 55 representatives from the 13 states did their best to come up with a constitution that would not only be the rules for governing the new count......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on August 29, 2023

This book helps me understand how the Framers discussed and compromised and discussed again how to give a government power, but not too much power. The men at the Constitutional Convention wrestled with issues of states' rights, slavery, proportional representation, and the level of executive power......more

Quotes

“Bronson Pinchot’s tenor voice is expressive, confident, and steady throughout.”
Audiofile

“Modern readers will find the authors’ comments on the Constitution particularly interesting, casting many of the Founding Fathers in a new light.”
Library Journal

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