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Putnam Reprint Paperback 8vo; 64 pages; As we look back at our history, we are so used to being the United States of America that it's hard to imagine a time when we weren't. History books move pretty quickly from the Declaration of Independence to the Revolutionary War to the Constitutional Convention and the writing of the Constitution of the United States of America. But Jean Fritz tells us in this book, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story." Although the United States was a dream of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, there were many others, even Patrick Henry, who believed there should be no strong national government with any real power to impose its will on the many separate states, who, at the time, felt more like countries. This book tells the story of how we got from there to here. The text of the Constitution is at the back of the book, bringing the total pages to 64. For ages 8-11