Skip to main content alibris logo

For the People, for the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle

by

Write The First Customer Review
For the People, for the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle - Ragosta, John A
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

"In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union. For the People, For the Country tells the story of how the most eloquent public speaker of the American Revolutionary era and a leading antifederalist during debates over ratification of the Constitution re-emerged on the side of the Federalists ...

loading
For the People, for the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle 2023, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813950228

Hardcover