Andrew H. Browning is author of The Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression. He was educated at Princeton and the University of Virginia and has taught history in Washington, DC; Portland, Oregon; and Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Delegates to the 1787 Federal Convention: Age and Education A Note on Names Introduction Part I 1. The Framers 2. Education Demigods Part II 3. The Self-Taught and the Tutored 4. Writing Schools and Grammar Schools 5. The Schools of the Prophets: Harvard and Yale 6. Their Majesties' College in Williamsburg: William and Mary 7. The Old World's Old Schools:England, France, and Ireland 8. The Inns of Court and Legal Apprenticeship Part III. 9. The New Old World: The Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh 10. Presbyterian Schools and Scottish Schoolmasters 11. Mirania in America: The College of Philadelphia and King's College 12. Princeton in the Nation's Service: The College of New Jersey 13. At the Convention: "To Form and More Perfect Union" Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
"Detailed and compendious, Schools for Statesmen performs a valuable service. It breaks down every conceivable factor in categorizing the backgrounds of the fifty-five framers of the U.S. Constitution, who represented twelve states."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Schools for Statesmen constitutes the most comprehensive analysis ever published of the education of the Framers of the US Constitution. Its detailed account of the Framers' tutors, grammar schools, colleges, and legal training is unparalleled. Its thesis--that the close personal connections between Framers of different states that were formed at colonial colleges, in combination with the ideas they imbibed together there, played a crucial role in the momentous decisions they reached at the Constitutional Convention--is especially provocative."--Carl Richard, author of The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment "Myths abound about the US Constitution and the men who created it. By contrast, this exceedingly well-researched book digs deeply into primary and secondary sources to illuminate the varied educational experiences of the Framers. The result is a remarkably helpful study of those men and a book full of insights concerning the varied intellectual currents of the eighteenth century, the work of the Constitutional Convention itself, and the nature of the document it produced."--Mark Noll, author of Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822 "According to a common formulation, 'mentors matter.' The educational mentors--some living, many long dead--of the fifty-five Framers of the US Constitution mattered indeed, as Andrew Browning makes abundantly clear in this informative treatment of the education of the architects of the republic. Some of the Framers were well-heeled graduates of today's Ivy League (e.g., James Madison, 'Father of the Constitution, ' from Princeton). Others, notably George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, were largely self-taught. But they all had their ideas about republics, ancient and modern, deeply imprinted by their educations. This fine book shows us how."--Jeffry H. Morrison, professor of American studies, Christopher Newport University