Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. By Richard Brookhiser. (New York: Free Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 251. $26.00.)

The youngest son of New York's vice-admiralty court judge and proprietor of Morrisania, whose half brother became a brigadier general in the British Army and whose grandfather had been royal governor of New Jersey, seemed an improbable revolutionary. But the aristocratic Morris family was not alone in its divided loyalties, and Gouverneur Morris, born in 1752, joined another half brother in espousing the patriot ...

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