Gouverneur Morris An Independent Life 1st Edition by William Howard Adams ISBN ‎ 0300099800 978-0300099805

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ISBN 10: 0300099800

ISBN 13:   978-0300099805

Author:  William Howard Adams

A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains an enigma among the founding generation. This comprehensive, engrossing biography tells his robust story, including his celebrated love affairs during his long stay in Europe. Morris’s public record is astonishing. One of the leading figures of the Constitutional Convention, he put the Constitution in its final version, including its opening Preamble. As Washington’s first minister to Paris, he became America’s most effective representative in France. A successful, international entrepreneur, he understood the dynamics of commerce in the modern world. Frankly cosmopolitan, he embraced city life as a creative center of civilization and had a central role in the building of the Erie Canal and in laying out the urban grid plan of Manhattan. William Howard Adams describes Morris’s many contributions, talents, sophistication, and wit, as well as his romantic liaisons, free habits, and free speech. He brings to life a fascinating man of great stature, a founding father who receives his due at last.

Table of contents: 

PART I. BACKGROUND
Chapter 1. The Pedigree
Chapter 2. A Profession

PART II. REVOLUTION
Chapter 3. Things Fall Apart
Chapter 4. “The Great Question of Independency”
Chapter 5. Breaking the Fetters

PART III. NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Chapter 6. The Continental Congress, 1778–1779
Chapter 7. Money Matters
Chapter 8. The Convention

PART IV. EUROPE
Chapter 9. Paris, 1789
Chapter 10. Business as Usual

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