RT Review
T1 Patrick Henry: First among Patriots
JF A journal of church and state
VO 54
IS 4
SP 673
OP 675
A1 Cray, Robert E.
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783937319
AB Patrick Henry is best remembered today for stirring oratory and memorable phrasing, most notably his 1775 speech in which he roared, “[G]ive me liberty or give me death!” Henry's alleged reason for avoiding the 1787 Constitutional Convention—“I smelt a rat”—ranks a close second. But whatever words come to mind, Patrick Henry, patriot orator, looms large in the public memory. Less well known, however, is Patrick Henry, Christian politico, whose religiously tailored republicanism merits our interest in Thomas S. Kidd's lucidly written tome., Professor Kidd's Patrick Henry underscores the political arc of eighteenth-century Virginia, in which slaveholding planters monopolized provincial offices and tenaciously held power.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/css093