Patrick Henry, Jon Kukla
Patrick Henry, Jon Kukla
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Patrick Henry
Champion of Liberty

Author: Jon Kukla

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 17 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/22/2017


Synopsis

Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney and planter, and an outstanding orator in the movement for independence. A contemporary of Washington, Henry stood with John and Samuel Adams among the leaders of the colonial resistance to Great Britain that ultimately created the United States. The first governor of Virginia after independence, he was re-elected several times. After declining to attend the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Henry opposed the Constitution, arguing that it granted too much power to the central government. Although he denounced slavery as evil, like many other southern slave-owners he accepted its continuation. Henry pushed vigorously for the ten amendments to the new Constitution, and then supported Washington and national unity against the bitter party divisions of the 1790s. He was enormously influential in his time, but his accomplishments, other than his oratory, were subsequently all but forgotten.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dreamergirl on June 14, 2011

I read this book a few hours ago and have very mixed opinions about it... First some happenings could have been given more emphasis (like the Liberty or Death speech), while others could have went deeper into his beliefs and who he actually was as a person. I don't know if the authors maybe didn't h......more