The Rake's Progress.("Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris -- The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution")(Book Review)

National Review | June 16, 2003| | Copyright

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris -- The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution, by Richard Brookhiser (Free Press, 251 pp., $26)

The first question this excellent book provokes is: What has taken so long? Why has a readable life of Gouverneur Morris not appeared sooner? It is true that Theodore Roosevelt, who, like Morris, was the offspring of New York gentlefolk, produced such a life -- but that volume appeared in 1888, more than a century ago. Roosevelt was a lunatic genius; and the protective Morris family not unnaturally declined to permit even such a ...

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