George Mason, William G. Hyland Jr.
George Mason, William G. Hyland Jr.
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George Mason
The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

Author: William G. Hyland Jr.

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vibrance Press

Published: 05/07/2019


Synopsis

George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon of honored Founding Fathers. Trained in the law, Mason was also a farmer, philosopher, botanist, and musician. He was one of the architects of the Declaration of Independence, an author of the Bill of Rights, and one of the strongest proponents of religious liberty in American history. In fact, both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison may have been given undue credit for George Mason's own contributions to American democracy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie

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

Goodreads review by Paul

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

Goodreads review by Susan

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