American Revolutionaries in the Making
Edition: 1st Free Press Ed edition
Publisher: Free Press
Published: May 1, 1965
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780029323908
Subjects: American history; Virginia; Politics and government; History: American; History - U.S.; United States - State & Local - General; USA; To 1775; United States - Colonial Period; United States - Revolutionary War; History; History / General; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); History-United States - Revolutionary War; History-United States - State & Local - General; 1775-1865; Plantation owners; Political activity
First sentence: IF WASHINGTON, Jefferson, Madison, and Marshall had never lived, the nation could not, of course, have benefited by their thoughts and actions; neither, for that matter, would it have received much profit from them, alive and in full possession of their powers, if they had been left in the obscurity of private life.