Lion of Liberty, Harlow Giles Unger
Lion of Liberty, Harlow Giles Unger
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Lion of Liberty
Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation

Author: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrator: William Hughes

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2010


Synopsis

Known to generations of Americans for his stirring call to arms, Give me liberty or give me death, Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights. If Washington was the Sword of the Revolution and Jefferson, the Pen, Patrick Henry more than earned his epithet as the Trumpet of the Revolution for rousing Americans to arms in the Revolutionary War. Henry was one of the towering figures of the nations formative years and perhaps the greatest orator in American history. To this day, many Americans misunderstand what Patrick Henrys cry for liberty or death meant to him and to his tens of thousands of devoted followers in Virginia. A prototype of the eighteenth and ninteenthcentury American frontiersman, Henry claimed individual liberties as a natural right to live free of the tyranny of rulersAmerican, as well as British. Henry believed that individual rights were more secure in small republics than in large republics, which many of the other Founding Fathers hoped to create after the Revolution. Henry was one of the most important and colorful of our Founding Fathersa driving force behind three of the most important events in American history: the War of Independence, the enactment of the Bill of Rights, and, tragically, as Americas first important proponent of states rights, the Civil War.

About Harlow Giles Unger

Harlow Giles Unger was the 2008 Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at George Washington's Mount Vernon. A veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian, he is author of sixteen books, including five biographies of America's Founders.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan on March 19, 2021

Reading Patrick Henry's speeches on natural rights, revolution, government, and liberty is both edifying and inspiring. Harlow Giles Unger delivers another very good biography in which the motivations and viewpoints of the various founding fathers are explored and explained with thoroughness and fai......more

Goodreads review by Jean on January 23, 2015

In reading this book I have learn a great deal of information about the life and work of Patrick Henry. Henry was mentioned in every biography I have read of the time frame, from George Washington to James Madison, Henry was discussed in the book but only in passing. Historians have paid the most at......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on October 29, 2017

Interesting read, but I overall felt more like I was reading a condensed history of the American Revolution/founding of Constitution, with a side focus on Henry rather than the other way around.  There is only one brief chapter on the first 24 years of Henry's life, and throughout the rest of the bo......more

Goodreads review by Dee on October 04, 2021

Audible.com 9 hours 28 min. Narrated by William Hughes (B) George Washington is called "the father of our country" because of his great influence as General during the Revolutionary War and his service as the first President of the United States. Unfortunately he and his devoted wife Martha had no ch......more

Goodreads review by David on June 20, 2021

Having read Harlow Giles Younger's biography of John Quincy Adams, a few more of his biographies came as a free bonus in my Audible account, so I decided to listen to some non-presidential biographies. Patrick Henry is known as the firebrand who said "Give me liberty or give me death." He never becam......more