Brothers of the Convention: The Square, the Compass, and the Country They Built Anyway

Ten Founders. One locked, sweltering room in Philadelphia. A country built on compromises nobody was fully proud of.In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men gathered to fix a government that was already failing. What they built instead was an entirely new Constitution — drafted by men who included active Freemasons, quiet slaveholders, land speculators, and at least one man later arrested for treason...