William Howard Adams is also the author of The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson, published by Yale University Press.
Won honorable mention for the 2004 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book
Award
“This forgotten founder was as large and multifaceted as the
Revolution itself. Marvelously idiosyncratic, he had a fiery
imagination that went along with his unabashed taste for women.
Alternately ambivalent and industrious, he was a cranky political
genius. William Howard Adams’s biography is essential
reading.”—Andrew Burstein, author of The Passions of Andrew
Jackson
“There is little doubt that Adams has a firm grasp of his subject’s
distinctive gifts and his importance to American history.”—Douglas
L. Wilson, author of Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham
Lincoln
“At last, Gouverneur Morris has found a biographer capable of
capturing his sassy mixture of irreverence, energy, and wisdom.
William Howard Adams has painted a brilliant full-length portrait
of the only peg-legged genius in American history."—Joseph J.
Ellis, author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary
Generation
“At last we have an authoritative biography of this intriguing man
so important in the early history of American diplomacy, finance,
and constitutionalism. It’s an added dividend that his life was
spiced with dramatic personal episodes, and that the book is
written with such grace by a lively guide who knows his terrain so
well.”—Michael Kammen, Professor of American History and Culture,
Cornell University and past-president of the Organization of
American Historians
“Adams deserves high praise for this insightful, revealing, and
wonderfully well-written account of Gouverneur Morris, a largely
forgotten yet important and compelling founder. Morris comes alive
as never before—within a very rich, very carefully crafted
historical context.”—Robert M. S. McDonald, United States Military
Academy, West Point
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