John Marshall
John Marshall : Definer of a Nation Jean Edward Smith
Publisher: Owl Books
ISBN: 080505510X
Edition: Paperback; 1998-03-15
Summary:
A New York Times Notable Book of 1996It was in tolling the death of
Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked,
never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court
and country, whose life “reads like an early history of the United
States,” as the Wall Street Journal noted, adding: Jean Edward Smith
“does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall’s life
without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it
encompassed.”Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has
drawn an elegant portrait of a remarkable man. Lawyer, jurist,
scholars; soldier, comrade, friend; and, most especially, lover of
fine Madeira, good food, and animated table talk: the Marshall who
emerges from these pages is noteworthy for his very human qualities
as for his piercing intellect, and, perhaps most extraordinary, for
his talents as a leader of men and a molder of consensus. A man of
many parts, a true son of the Enlightenment, John Marshall did much
for his country, and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation demonstrates
this on every page.
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