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Title: George Mason : Reluctant Statesman by Robert Allen Rutland, Dumas Malone ISBN: 0-8071-0696-8 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: December, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Someone we all need to know better
Comment: In an era when Americans seem to be quickly losing touch with their own history, one of the greatest crimes of all is that the name of George Mason has faded into almost complete obscurity (if there weren't a university named after him in Virginia, how much worse would it be?).
In his foreword to this brief book, Dumas Malone, the biographer of Jefferson, notes what a shame this is: 'More than any other single American, except possibly Thomas Jefferson, whom in some sense he anticipated, George Mason may be regarded as the herald of this new era [of declarations of rights]; and in our own age, when the rights of individual human beings are being challenged by totalitarianism around the world, men can still find inspiration in his noble words.'
Biographies of Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (which inspired, among other things, the US Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) are woefully few. Rutland's short book is a fine and easily digestible introduction to the man, his times, and his impact upon history. The value of that is hard to overstate.
Rating: 3
Summary: Accessible Introduction to Lesser Known Revolutionary
Comment: This is an accessible introduction to George Mason, a Revolutionary Virginian of lesser fame. The book is very short and the print rather large, making this an easy read. Robert Rutland dwells mostly on Mason's public life, only hinting at his private life. Like Jefferson, Mason was a slaveholder who abhorred slavery (he wished the Constitutional Convention had abolished it), but Rutland leaves this paradox unexplored. For those of a scholarly bent, the book lacks footnotes. Mason was the moving force behind Virginia's Declaration of Rights, and, for that reason alone, is quite significant. Any person wishing to learn more about him will find this book a good place to start.
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Title: George Mason, Constitutionalist by Helen Hill Miller ISBN: 1931313458 Publisher: Simon Publications Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (2nd Edition) by J. William T. Youngs, Oscar Handlin ISBN: 0321043723 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 09 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.67 |
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Title: The Essential America: A Narrative History (Volume 2) by David Shi, David Emory Shi, Thomas Pearcy, George Tindall ISBN: 0393976246 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $42.60 |
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Title: Abraham Lincoln : Man Behind the Myths, The by Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0060924721 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser ISBN: 0743223799 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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