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The mind of a patriot
Patrick Henry and the world of ideas
By Hayes, Kevin J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-81392-758-9
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
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Reviewed on September 1, 2008
Hayes (English, Univ. of Central Oklahoma; The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson) debunks the characterization of revolutionary patriot Patrick Henry ("Give me Liberty, or give me Death!") as essentially an unlearned backwoodsman who happened to have the gift of oratory. Thomas Jefferson, largely responsible for this characterization, repeated by later biographers of Henry, referred to him as "the laziest man in reading I ever knew." Hayes methodically refutes this through a thoro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
