George Mason
The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

I am going to wait to give this a full review until I have read “Forgotten Founder” Because several people note large portions of plagiarism. Otherwise I thought this was very well written-Not exactly a bio, But more focused on his belief in a bill of rights and how his Virginia Bill of Rights has re......more

I think it's interesting that George Mason's role in the founding of the country is mostly forgotten today, considering how his contemporaries viewed him (though maybe I shouldn't be surprised, having read Chuck Klosterman's But What If We're Wrong?). I think the book mainly explains this by poi......more

George Mason is at times a forgotten founding father - he was one of the premier political philosophers of the revolutionary period in the US. He was the drafter of the Virginia Bill of Rights (which served as a model for our own bill of rights). He was one of three who refused to sign the Constitut......more

I started this book and gave up after a couple of chapters. It is painfully repetitive and seems more interested in Mason's emotions and the appearances of all the characters than in substantive history. Hyland has the annoying habit of trying to "reconstruct" encounters, conversations, etc., in soa......more