Patrick Henry: First among Patriots

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 wo...

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主要作者: Cray, Robert E. (Author)
格式: 电子 Review
语言:English
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出版: Oxford University Press 2012
In: A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, 卷: 54, 发布: 4, Pages: 673-675
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总结: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.
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css093