Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris
Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris
Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris
Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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Gentleman Revolutionary
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439104085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination of temptations and talents quite so vividly as the least known of the greats, Gouverneur Morris. His story is one that should be known by every American -- after all, he drafted the Constitution, and his hand lies behind many of its most important phrases. Yet he has been lost in the shadows of the Founders who became presidents and faces on our currency. As Brookhiser shows in this sparkling narrative, Morris's story is not only crucial to the Founding, it is also one of the most entertaining and instructive of all. Gouverneur Morris, more than Washington, Jefferson, or even Franklin, is the Founding Father whose story can most readily touch our hearts, and whose character is most sorely needed today. He was a witty, peg-legged ladies' man. He was an eyewitness to two revolutions (American and French) who joked with George Washington, shared a mistress with Talleyrand, and lost friends to the guillotine. In his spare time he gave New York City its street grid and New York State the Erie Canal. His keen mind and his light, sure touch helped make our Constitution the most enduring fundamental set of laws in the world. In his private life, he suited himself; pleased the ladies until, at age fifty-seven, he settled down with one lady (and pleased her); and lived the life of a gentleman, for whom grace and humanity were as important as birth. He kept his good humor through war, mobs, arson, death, and two accidents that burned the flesh from one of his arms and cut off one of his legs below the knee. Above all, he had the gift of a sunny disposition that allowed him to keep his head in any troubles. We have much to learn from him, and much pleasure to take in his company.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439104085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination of temptations and talents quite so vividly as the least known of the greats, Gouverneur Morris. His story is one that should be known by every American -- after all, he drafted the Constitution, and his hand lies behind many of its most important phrases. Yet he has been lost in the shadows of the Founders who became presidents and faces on our currency. As Brookhiser shows in this sparkling narrative, Morris's story is not only crucial to the Founding, it is also one of the most entertaining and instructive of all. Gouverneur Morris, more than Washington, Jefferson, or even Franklin, is the Founding Father whose story can most readily touch our hearts, and whose character is most sorely needed today. He was a witty, peg-legged ladies' man. He was an eyewitness to two revolutions (American and French) who joked with George Washington, shared a mistress with Talleyrand, and lost friends to the guillotine. In his spare time he gave New York City its street grid and New York State the Erie Canal. His keen mind and his light, sure touch helped make our Constitution the most enduring fundamental set of laws in the world. In his private life, he suited himself; pleased the ladies until, at age fifty-seven, he settled down with one lady (and pleased her); and lived the life of a gentleman, for whom grace and humanity were as important as birth. He kept his good humor through war, mobs, arson, death, and two accidents that burned the flesh from one of his arms and cut off one of his legs below the knee. Above all, he had the gift of a sunny disposition that allowed him to keep his head in any troubles. We have much to learn from him, and much pleasure to take in his company.
The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris
Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813929491
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume is a collection of diary entries by the New York native who embarked for Europe at the end of 1788, returning ten years later. The statesman witnessed the eruption of the French Revolution and the onset of the French Revolutionary Wars and was the American minister to France from 1792 to 1794.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813929491
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume is a collection of diary entries by the New York native who embarked for Europe at the end of 1788, returning ten years later. The statesman witnessed the eruption of the French Revolution and the onset of the French Revolutionary Wars and was the American minister to France from 1792 to 1794.
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris
Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris Minister of the United States to France; Member of the Constitutional Convention, Etc
Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris
Author: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
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Envoy to the Terror
Author: Melanie Randolph Miller
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An American Founding Father s important contributions to the French Revolution
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An American Founding Father s important contributions to the French Revolution
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, Vol. 1
Author: Anne Cary Morris
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428211936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Excerpt from The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, Vol. 1: Minister of the United States to France, Member of the Constitutional Convention, Etc Americans will doubtless accord a ready sympathy to a man who was truly an American, and at a time when thus to proclaim his principles attested an independence careless of unpopularity. Possibly, too, our kindred over seas may find something of interest in the career of one who, though a rebel against England, spent the best years of his life assisting in the formation of a govern ment under which the poor of the earth might find an asylum, and whose views were consistently favorable to the peace and happiness of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428211936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Excerpt from The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, Vol. 1: Minister of the United States to France, Member of the Constitutional Convention, Etc Americans will doubtless accord a ready sympathy to a man who was truly an American, and at a time when thus to proclaim his principles attested an independence careless of unpopularity. Possibly, too, our kindred over seas may find something of interest in the career of one who, though a rebel against England, spent the best years of his life assisting in the formation of a govern ment under which the poor of the earth might find an asylum, and whose views were consistently favorable to the peace and happiness of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.