John Laurance : the immigrant founding father America never knew /
John Laurance, The Immigrant Founding Father America Never Knew is a New York story whose compass points lay long buried in the bowels of local archival institutions.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
American Philosophical Society,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ;
v.108, pt.2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: John Who?
- Götterdämerung
- Casting fate to the wind
- Crossing the bar
- An officer of the revolution
- Washington's courtroom "Von Steuben"
- Courtrooms as battlefields
- "Then all the world would be upside down"
- New York lawyer rising
- federalist into Federalist
- The congress of firsts
- Federalist warhorse
- Philadelphia story
- A farewell to innocence
- Judicial safe harbor
- The senator from New York
- Quasi-warrior in the "reign of witches"
- Slipping the party harness
- The consolation of wealth
- Epilogue: Why John Laurance matters.