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Patrick Henry : champion of liberty by Kukla, Jon, 1948- author is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, Give me liberty, or give me death! restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence. 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. Kukla s biogra

Who reads Patrick Henry : champion of liberty?

Author

Kukla, Jon, 1948- author

Publisher

New York: Simon and Schuster

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439190814

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

4.25 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14