Gouverneur Morris: An Independent LifeYale University Press, 01.10.2008 - 368 Seiten A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains an enigma among the founding generation. This comprehensive, engrossing biography tells his robust story, including his celebrated love affairs during his long stay in Europe. Morris’s public record is astonishing. One of the leading figures of the Constitutional Convention, he put the Constitution in its final version, including its opening Preamble. As Washington’s first minister to Paris, he became America’s most effective representative in France. A successful, international entrepreneur, he understood the dynamics of commerce in the modern world. Frankly cosmopolitan, he embraced city life as a creative center of civilization and had a central role in the building of the Erie Canal and in laying out the urban grid plan of Manhattan. William Howard Adams describes Morris’s many contributions, talents, sophistication, and wit, as well as his romantic liaisons, free habits, and free speech. He brings to life a fascinating man of great stature, a founding father who receives his due at last. |
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... tion hints at the enigma still hidden at the center of Morris's personality that attracted me to undertake the present work . History's casual indifference also rests with Morris's personality , which resists the sacred pronouncements ...
... tion were necessary “to bring Slaves to the Enjoyment of Liberty.... The Progress towards Freedom must be slow and can only be compleated in the Course of several Generations.” Because of his consistent criticism and condemnation of the ...
... tion contrary to my directions and example unto him.”12 The rebellious young Morris, who later became the first royal governor of New Jersey, successfully resisted all efforts to civilize him according to the unbending gospel of George ...
... tion had been rushed , giving him the disposition of someone who had come of age early in life . Judge Thomas Jones , who knew the family well , thought he had “ more knowledge ( though still a youth ) than all his brothers put together ...
... tion , the prestige of his family had guaranteed both his grandfather and father a seat on the provincial bench . When a group of the city's lawyers decided to organize themselves into a bar association in 1756 , a wary Cadwallader ...
Inhalt
39 | |
PART III NATIONAL AFFAIRS | 93 |
PART IV EUROPE | 169 |
PART V SETTLING DOWN | 251 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 324 |
Index | 335 |