Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main characters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard , are back for another treasure hunt through time. They have learned of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. The draft's marginal notes spell out, in shocking detail, the Founders' unequivocal intentions--the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights. Peddled and purloined, trafficked and concealed for over two centuries, the lost Constitution could forever ...
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Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main characters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard , are back for another treasure hunt through time. They have learned of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. The draft's marginal notes spell out, in shocking detail, the Founders' unequivocal intentions--the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights. Peddled and purloined, trafficked and concealed for over two centuries, the lost Constitution could forever change America's history--and its future. Moreover, Congress is already at war, fighting tooth and claw over the eternally contentious Bill of Rights. When word gets out of the lost draft's existence, it launches a frenzied search, as both sides of the partisan machine believe it will reinforce their arguments. While battling politicians from both sides of the debate, Peter and Evangeline must get to the document first, because they know that if the wrong people find it, they will burn it, stripping the nation of its constitutional moorings. The search takes Peter and Evangeline into the rich history of America and New England, from Shays's Rebellion to the birth of the American industrial revolution to the march of the legendary 20th Maine in the Civil War. Past and present play off one another as the search for the draft heats up. It finally boils over on the first night of the World Series, at that Mecca of New England, Boston's fabled Fenway Park, and the truth is finally revealed....
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Although a novel, this book highlights actual events in the development of the U.S. Constitution. The reactions of the "founding fathers" as they considered issues to be addressed by the newly emerging nation is interestingly presented in a way that leads the reader to recognize that these young men were quite human. After all they were indeed young men involved in a bold revolution against the British and having the awesome responsivility to craft a new nation..
Evelyn
Jan 24, 2008
Fun to read.
Intriguing premise for a story. Insighful regarding past periods of time. This writer has some interesting ideas on which to base his fictional plots and somewhat historical characters other than those that are based on fact. The truly historical characters one can only trust are within their own personalities. This was the first of this writer's books that I read. I enjoyed it enough that i have since sought out, with the help of Alibris, his past publications to read. They only get better as he develops his genre.
