The Insurgent Delegate : Selected Letters and Other Writings of George Thatcher

William C. diGiacomantonio

ISBN 10: 099751910X / ISBN 13: 9780997519105

Published by Colonial Society Of Massachusetts Jun 2019, 2019

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Neuware - George Thatcher served as a US representative throughout the Federalist Era - the most critical period of American constitutional history. Written over his forty-year career, the over two hundred letters and writings selected for this edition will appeal anyine looking for an encyclopaedic resource on the Founding generation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Insurgent Delegate : Selected Letters and Other Writings of George Thatcher
• Publisher: Colonial Society Of Massachusetts Jun 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099751910X
• ISBN 13: 9780997519105
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 152H x 0D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1378 grams

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Synopsis

George Thatcher served as a U.S. representative from Maine throughout the Federalist Era (1789-1801)―the most critical and formative period of American constitutional history. A moderate on most political issues, the Cape Cod native and Harvard-educated lawyer proved a maverick in matters relating to education, the expansion of the slave interest, the rise of Unitarianism, and the separation of church and state. Written over his forty-year career as a country lawyer, national legislator, and state supreme court justice, the over two hundred letters and miscellaneous writings selected for this edition will appeal to historians, lawyers and legal scholars, teachers, and genealogists as an encyclopedic resource on the Founding generation, and to all readers captivated by the dramatic immediacy and inherent authenticity of personal letters. Following Thatcher’s journey as a New England Federalist, abolitionist, religious dissenter, and pedagogical innovator is to add depth and complexity to our understanding of the early American Republic.

Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

About the Author

William C. diGiacomantonio, Chief Historian of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, spent most of his career on the editorial team that recently completed the twenty-two-volume Documentary History of the First Federal Congress.