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1 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm
New from DeCapo Press: John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger, independent scholar and the author of nearly a dozen Founding Father biographies. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 1:01 am
Unger obviously admires Rush a great deal. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 12:02 am
Unger, however, has a respect for facts. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 12:01 am
Unger seeks to redress this great injustice in a small but significant way by bringing his story to a contemporary American audience. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 1:01 am
Unger does an excellent job, as usual, in making this biography readable and consistently interesting. [read post]
16 Dec 2018, 12:01 am
As an example, Unger points out that at the time of the passage of the inflammatory Molasses Act of 1733, rum was New England’s most popular drink. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 2:29 am
Unger does an excellent job, as usual, in making this biography readable and consistently interesting. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 12:01 am
Henry Clay of Kentucky was elected to the post of Speaker of the U.S. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm
From PQ Monthly: Oregon State Bar Unveils Diversity & Inclusion Story Wall.From History News Network: Harlow Giles Unger on "Why Naming John Marshall Chief Justice Was John Adams’s 'Greatest Gift' to the Nation. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 6:40 am
Harlow Giles Unger, a renowned biographer of the Founding Fathers, looks at the Paine we know and the one we don’t, in his telling of the story of a man who pursued Enlightenment ideals even when those ideals ran afoul of what was socially acceptable.Site Feed [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 1:01 am
As Harlow Giles Unger noted of the output of the Court in his biography of Marshall: Many formed the foundation of American constitutional law. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 6:25 am
James Monroe (1817-1825) The Last Founding Father by Harlowe Giles Unger: Though not quite a household name in the same league as his predecessors, James Monroe still impacted the fledgling United States in some pretty major ways. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 12:01 am
You can read about these and other personal details of Washington’s life in the book The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life by Harlow Giles Unger. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 12:01 am
Historian Harlow Giles Unger seeks to redress this great injustice in a small but significant way by bringing his story to a contemporary American audience in the book Improbable Patriot. [read post]
February 9, 1825 – The House of Representatives Decides the Presidency in Favor of John Quincy Adams
9 Feb 2019, 12:01 am
As historian Harlow Giles Unger in his biography John Quincy Adams has written: Calling themselves Democrats, the new party [of Jackson followers] set out from the first to cripple John Quincy’s administration and ensure his departure after one term. [read post]
24 Sep 2017, 1:01 am
In the excellent book John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved The Union by Harlow Giles Unger, Unger takes the interesting approach of illuminating the contributions of John Marshall to the protection and preservation of the Constitution by describing the many ways in which Thomas Jefferson sought to subvert it. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 1:44 pm
Harlow Giles Unger, America's second revolution : how George Washington defeated Patrick Henry and saved the nation (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007). [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 7:13 am
First, I’m going to finish the biography Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 12:01 am
As historian Harlow Giles Unger wrote, in American Tempest: …many were ready to sacrifice their honor as human beings – and the blood of innocents – by disguising their struggle for wealth as a quest for liberty for the common man. [read post]
