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The cost of liberty : the life of John Dickinson / William Murchison.

Title: The cost of liberty : the life of John Dickinson / William Murchison.
Author: Murchison, William P.
Publication: Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, [2013]

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Description

x, 252 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

This biography gives a great Founder his long-overdue measure of honor. It also broadens our understanding of the Founding period, challenging many modern assumptions about the events of 1776 and 1787.

Series Statement

Lives of the founders

Uniform Title

Lives of the founders

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

"The fields are full of promises" -- "An immense bustle in the world" -- "You rivet perpetual chains upon your unhappy country" -- "My dear countrymen" -- "In freedom we're born, and in freedom we'll live" -- "There is a spirit of liberty among us" -- "The force of accumulated injuries" -- "To die free-men rather than to live like slaves" -- "War is actually begun" -- "Let my country treat me as she pleases" -- "The finishing blow" -- "Willingly to resign my life" -- "The sacred voice of my country" -- "Acting before the world" -- "Experience must be our only guide".

ISBN

9781933859941
1933859946

LCCN

^^2013026096

OCLC

851285712
SCSB-10935244

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library