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Cargando... Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull (edición 2008)por Gary Nash
Información de la obraFriends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull por Gary Nash
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I overall enjoyed this book and appreciated the stories of Agrippa "Grippy" Hull and Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Mr. Nash neatly melds the two mens' stories together. Unfortunately Mr. Hull's "paper trail" isn't enough to do an in depth modern day biography but is given a vehicle by his association with Kosciuszko. I am too far past viewing the Founding Fathers with rose-colored glasses, so reading about Thomas Jefferson's reneging on his solemn vow to the Polish abolitionist was difficult to read but not unbelievable. However, Mr. Nash seemed to mention at every chance Jefferson's "indiscretion" with his slave Sally Hemmings. Numerous sources have come out, dispelling the myth and casting doubt upon these liaisons, yet Nash writes as if these are proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. My point is continual inclusion of this myth as fact detracts from the book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The bulk of the book is concerned with Jefferson's handling of Kósciuszko's will, which was designed to allow Jefferson to use the proceeds from Kósciuszko's American estates to fund the education and manumission of Jefferson's slaves and others. Jefferson decided he didn't want to abide by these terms, and spent several years trying to figure out how to extricate himself from the wishes of his longtime friend. The legal maneuvering was complex, and Nash and Hodges ably reconstruct the narrative of this period.
Imperfect, but very interesting nonetheless, and for its account of the Jefferson-Kósciuszko estate wranglings, quite worth a read. ( )