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Overview"Known to generations of Americans for his stirring call to arms, ""Give me liberty or give me death,"" Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights. If Washington was the ""Sword of the Revolution"" and Jefferson, ""the Pen,"" Patrick Henry more than earned his epithet as ""the Trumpet"" of the Revolution for rousing Americans to arms in the Revolutionary War. Henry was one of the towering figures of the nation's formative years and perhaps the greatest orator in American history. To this day, many Americans misunderstand what Patrick Henry's cry for ""liberty or death"" meant to him and to his tens of thousands of devoted followers in Virginia. A prototype of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American frontiersman, Henry claimed individual liberties as a ""natural right"" to live free of ""the tyranny of rulers""--American as well as British. Henry believed that individual rights were more secure in small republics than in large republics, which many of the other Founding Fathers hoped to create after the Revolution. Henry was one of the most important and colorful of our Founding Fathers--a driving force behind three of the most important events in American history: the War of Independence, the enactment of the Bill of Rights, and, tragically, as America's first important proponent of state's rights, the Civil War. This biography is history at its best, telling a story both human and philosophical. As Unger points out, Henry's words continue to echo across America and inspire millions to fight government intrusion in their daily lives." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Harlow Giles Unger , William Hughes (Bath Spa University UK)Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 18.80cm Weight: 0.100kg ISBN: 9781441762818ISBN 10: 1441762817 Publication Date: 26 October 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationHarlow Giles Unger, a former distinguished visiting fellow in American history at George Washington's Mount Vernon, is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. He is the author of more than twenty books, including several biographies of the Founding Fathers. He has also authored histories of the early Republic as well as numerous books on American education. He lives in New York. William Hughes is a professor of political science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. He received his doctorate in American politics from the University of California, Davis. He has done voice-over work for radio and film and is also an accomplished jazz guitarist. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |