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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book Review)
Florida Bar Journal
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January 1, 2004|
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by Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser has written a brisk, insightful biography of one of the lesser-known founding fathers. Attorney, principal drafter of the U.S. Constitution, and ladies' man--not necessarily in that order--Gouverneur Morris should be more widely remembered today, and Brookhiser demonstrates why in Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris--The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.
Gentleman Revolutionary begins by tracing Morris's lineage; Morris was born (in 1752) into the New York aristocracy of pre-Revolutionary America. In the ...
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