"Our knowledge of what happened in the meetings of the Constitutional Convention--and all of them were secret in the sense that no reports of the proceedings were allowed to reach the public--is derived almost entirely from the brief notes taken by James Madison which were not published until many years later. What Professors Rodell has done is to expand these notes from a few other sources and to retell their story in a most readable and interesting manner which brings out the hidden drama of the proceedings." - NY Herald Tribune--New York Herald-Tribune
