Gouverneur Morris

Author : Richard Brookhiser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439104085
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gentleman Revolutionary written by Richard Brookhiser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gouverneur Morris written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1898 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James J. Kirschke
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312241957
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gouverneur Morris written by James J. Kirschke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An ever-present figure in the early days of the nation, Gouverneur Morris left an indelible mark on the country's future development. While in the New York State legislature, he was part of the committee that wrote the state's constitution. He went on to write some of the most critical documents of the Second Continental Congress, gaining the enduring admiration of George Washington, who later appointed him minister to France. At the Office of Finance he helped to develop the basic plan for the coinage system that remains in use today, and in private business he was instrumental in the planning and establishment of the Bank of North America.".

Author : Gouverneur Morris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris written by Gouverneur Morris and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.

Author : Gouverneur Morris
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ISBN 13 : 9780865978348
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Secure the Blessings of Liberty written by Gouverneur Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris's writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to scholars of American and French history as the volume contains many writings that have never before been published. Providing his unique perspective, this is a wonderful and accessible single source that illuminates the political and economic thought of Gouverneur Morris.

Author : Richard Brookhiser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684831422
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Founding Father written by Richard Brookhiser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-02-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revisits the spectacular career of George Washington, at once our most familiar and enigmatic president. Challenging the modern perceptions of Washington as either a political figurehead of little actual importance or a folk legend rather than a real man, Brookhiser traces the president's amazing accomplishments as a statesman, soldier, and founder of a great nation in a quarter century of activity that remains unmatched by any modern leader. Brookhiser goes on to examine Washington's education, ideals, and intellectual curiosity, illuminating how Washington's character and values shaped the beginnings of American politics."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Melanie Randolph Miller
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612342779
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envoy to the Terror written by Melanie Randolph Miller and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Founding Father's important contributions to the French Revolution.

Author : Gouverneur Morris
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ISBN 13 : 9780813929491
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris written by Gouverneur Morris and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gouverneur Morris written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gouverneur Morris
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spread Eagle and Other Stories written by Gouverneur Morris and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spread Eagle and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Gouverneur Morris. Morris was an American writer of pulp tales and short stories. Excerpt:" They drove first of all to Gaston Rennette's gallery, where Fitz celebrated the glorious Fourth with a real duelling pistol and real bullets, aiming at a life-size sheet-iron man, who, like a correct, courteous, and courageous opponent, never moved. And all the way to the gallery and all the way back there was here and there an American flag, as is customary in Paris on the Fourth. And to these Fitz, standing up in the victoria, dipped and waved his hat. While he was shooting, his mother took a "little turn" and then came back to fetch him; a stout man in a blue blouse accompanying him to the curb, tossing his hands heavenward, rolling up his eyes, and explaining to madame what a "genius at the shoot was the little mister," and had averaged upon the "mister of iron" one "fatal blow" in every five. Madame "invited" the stout man to a five-franc piece for himself and she smiled, and he smiled, and bowed off backward directly into a passing pedestrian, who cried out upon the "sacred name of a rooster." And everybody laughed, including Cunningham, whose face from much shaving looked as if a laugh must crack it; and so the glorious Fourth was begun."