Patrick Henry: The Life and Legacy of the Founding Father and Virginia's First Governor
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072QCGJMB |
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| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Modupe Hendricks said There's a great deal of information about Patrick Henry's life in this e-book. The life and legacy of Patrick Henry was pretty interesting. He was a self-made lawyer who had the ability to sway the minds of the people who listen to his speeches. He was a hypocrite like many of the founding fathers who oppose slavery but owned slaves. At least he was willing to work in the fields with his slaves in his younger days. The book has a number of Patrick Henry's speeches including several very good to great speeches where he criticized the British government for attempting to impose laws on the colonists without meeting with or listening to representatives of those colonists. He was a poli. ForeverAStudent said Everyone knows the line Henry's famous for about liberty or. Everyone knows the line Henry's famous for about liberty or death. This book explores the debate over whether he said that. Meanwhile it also covers his other speeches and his political rise, as well as the military role he played during the Revolution. . Four Stars David Slipy Interesting information about an important founder.
The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the "shot heard 'round the world" to the Declaration of Independence, but the events that led up to the fighting at Lexington and Concord were borne out of 10 years of division between the British and their American colonies over everything from colonial representation in governments to taxation, the nature of searches, and the quartering of British regulars in private houses. He had also taken the liberty of others, though for different reasons. He had fought for, and won, the liberty of numerous clients he defended in Virginia's colonial courts. He had known the liberty of running across open fields on warm Virginia mornings and of riding at breakneck speed across fields he owned. From 1764-1775, a chain of events that included lightning r