Bøger af Josiah Quincy

Part of the ""Portrait of a Patriot"" series that presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr (1744-1775). This volume introduces you to Quincy's ""Legal Commonplace Book"" which illustrates the systematic program of reading through which aspiring young lawyers learned their trade in colonial New England.

Helps you meet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the southern colonies to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. This work shows how Quincy was dazzled by the opulence and sophistication of late-eighteenth-century Charleston society.

Josiah Quincy Jr, Boston lawyer and patriot penman, had he lived longer could have been a leader of the new American Republic with a name familiar in most households. This work provides a biographical introduction, followed by Quincy's ""Political Commonplace Book"", in which the patriot noted down passages from his reading in politics and history.