Drawing on letters, diaries and records never used before, this life of the Virginia orator asks whether he was really illiterate, recounts the Parsons’ Cause that made his name, and follows him through the Stamp Act resolves, the Continental Congress, the gunpowder affair of 1775 and his opposition to the federal Constitution.
A scholar’s portrait for the American Statesmen series by the historian of American colonial literature. Download the free EPUB.