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050 00 $aE302.6.M7$bM493 2005
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100 1 $aMiller, Melanie Randolph,$d1953-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004027394
245 13 $aAn incautious man :$bthe life of Gouverneur Morris /$cMelanie Miller.
260 $aWilmington, DE :$bISI Books,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axvi, 226 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLives of the founders
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$t"I Am Not a Cautious Man" -- $g1.$tA New York Birthright -- $g2.$tA Vernal Morning -- $g3.$t"This is the Seed Time of Glory as of Freedom" -- $g4.$tThe Accident -- $g5.$tThe Public Credit -- $g6.$tThe Constitution -- $g7.$tFrance -- $g8.$t"A Pleasing Woman" -- $g9.$tLondon -- $g10.$tReturn to Paris -- $g11.$tThe King Falls -- $g12.$tInto the Terror -- $g13.$tReturn to America.
520 1 $a"In An Incautious Man, historian Melanie Miller provides a succinct but sophisticated recounting of the life of one of our lesser-known but most engaging Founding Fathers: Gouverneur Morris. One of George Washington's "surrogate sons," Morris played a profoundly important role in ensuring the success of the American Revolution and in the creation of the Constitution. Miller provides readers a look behind the closed doors of the Constitutional Convention, where Morris's crystalline but passionate eloquence gave the debate a vitality that remains both enthralling and keenly meaningful for America today." "In 1792, Morris replaced Thomas Jefferson as the American minister to France. His experience there during the Terror is unparalleled in diplomatic history. Morris's time in France is a story of conspiracy to help the king escape, of friends imprisoned and murdered, of seized ships and complex problems unprecedented in the young nation's history. Upon his return to the U.S., Morris served a brief stint in the Senate before going on to secure the building of the Erie Canal and to direct the design of the Manhattan network of streets we know today."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMorris, Gouverneur,$d1752-1816.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50006168
650 0 $aStatesmen$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111368
610 10 $aUnited States.$tConstitution$xSigners$vBiography.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1775-1783.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140413
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1789.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140414
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