Research Catalog

Title

Patrick Henry : patriot and statesman / by Norine Dickson Campbell.

Author

Campbell, Norine Dickson, 1899-1988.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Devin-Adair Co., ©1969.

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Details

Description

xvii, 437 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

The Patrick Henry known to few Americans stands larger than life on the stage of our history. Only withinthe past couple of decades have historians begun to recognize that here was only one of the truly extraordinary men who lived and worked in that extraordinary time when the United States was emergin from the chaos of revolution.

Subjects

• Political culture
• United States
• 1700-1799
• American Revolution > (United States : > 1775-1783)
• Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799
• Biographies
• History
• collective biographies
• United States > Politics and government > 1783-1789
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
• Politics and government
• Political culture > United States > History > 18th century
• Legislators > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Ancestry -- Education and early life -- Testing years -- Decisions and events -- The Parson's Cause -- Stamp Act -- Orator of nature and revolutionary causes -- Scotchtown, its sphere of importance -- The Continental Congress -- St. John's Church Speech -- The Powder Affair -- The Second Continental Congress -- Policies and patriots -- Henry's instructions -- independence -- Constitutional government -- Executive years -- five times governor -- The articles of confederation -- Foe of the federal constitution -- British debt case and retirement -- Appendix: Wm. Wirt Henry's letter.

ISBN

• 081596501X
• 9780815965015

LCCN

75096808

OCLC

• ocm00694997
• 694997
• SCSB-212477

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library