John P. Kaminski
Autore di The Founders on the Founders: Word Portraits from the American Revolutionary Era
Sull'Autore
John P. Kaminski is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Opere di John P. Kaminski
Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate Over the Ratification of the Constitution (Constitutional Heritage Series) (1989) — A cura di — 53 copie
The Great Virginia Triumvirate: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison in the Eyes of Their… (2010) 29 copie
A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate of the Constitution (Constitutional Heritage, Vol 2) (1995) 20 copie
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume XIV: Commentaries on the Constitution, Public… (2001) 3 copie
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume XIX: Ratification of the Constitution by the… (2003) 3 copie
The documentary history of the ratification of the Constitution [...] [...] 2 Ratification of the Constitution by the… (2012) 2 copie
Ratification Constitution V8: Ratification by the States: Virginia, Volume 1 (Ratification of the Constitution) (1988) 2 copie
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Volume XII: Ratification of the Constitution by the… (2015) 2 copie
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Volume XXVI: Ratification of the Constitution by the… (2013) 2 copie
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 10: Ratification of the Constitution by the… (1993) 1 copia
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Volume 38: Bill of Rights, No.… (2022) 1 copia
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Volume XI: Ratification of the Constitution by the… (2015) 1 copia
Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume XXIV: Ratification of the Constitution by the… (2011) 1 copia
An Assembly of Demigods: Word Portraits of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention by Their Contemporaries (2012) 1 copia
Opere correlate
The documentary history of the ratification of the constitution (1976) — Associate editor — 19 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1945-01-16
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- male
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- Opere
- 35
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 378
- Popolarità
- #63,851
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 47
- Lingue
- 1
I just finished George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic by John P. Kaminski. I came upon the book quite by accident at a public library, one of the few that is actually open for browsing post-pandemic, when I was searching for another book. Though I am a history buff I had heard little about George Clinton.
I pre-read a section about Vermont's formation of an independent republic, one that lasted from 1777 to 1791. Vermont's secession from New York (actually it was claimed by New York and New Hampshire, and there was some contention involvement from Massachusetts) was vigorously opposed by George Clinton, then governor. I decided, on a whim, to take the book out.
Sometimes, a book surprises you. I'd never really focused on George Clinton's role other than his cameo appearance in Ron Chernow's Hamilton, as an opponent of ratification of the constitution. Eventually, George Clinton acquiesced, as a result of the incipient adoption of the amendments that became the Bill of Rights. He was intelligent and skillful enough not to frontally or totally oppose the Constitution. Something like the Constitution was apparently inevitable in view of the implosion of the Articles of Confederation.
The Founding Fathers were quite an illustrious group of people, and some of them have become famous. I suspect that George Clinton was quite famous in his times. His fame has not really survived. His name is not a whole household word to elementary school students in way that George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay and/or Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (the latter two being "duel citizens). The book works better as a setting for description of a period of time that as a story of his life. His life, put bluntly, was not thrilling the way Washington's or Hamilton's was.
There will never be a Broadway show called "George Clinton" even if Broadway reopens from the pandemic. Still it earns a solid "four stars" on Goodreads.… (altro)