Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Papers of William Livingston: April 1783-August 1790
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Papers of William Livingston
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Papers of William Livingston: July 1777-December 1778
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Papers of William Livingston
Author: Carl PrincePublisher:
ISBN: 9780813511405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
William Livingston's American Revolution
Author: James J. Gigantino IIPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812295501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
William Livingston's American Revolution explores how New Jersey's first governor experienced the American Revolution and managed a state government on the war's front lines. A wartime bureaucrat, Livingston played a pivotal role in a pivotal place, prosecuting the war on a daily basis for eight years. Such second-tier founding fathers as Livingston were the ones who actually administered the war and guided the day-to-day operations of revolutionary-era governments, serving as the principal conduits between the local wartime situation and the national demands placed on the states. In the first biography of Livingston published since the 1830s, James J. Gigantino's examination is as much about the position he filled as about the man himself. The reluctant patriot and his roles as governor, member of the Continental Congress, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention quickly became one, as Livingston's distinctive personality molded his office's status and reach. A tactful politician, successful lawyer, writer, satirist, political operative, gardener, soldier, and statesman, Livingston became the longest-serving patriot governor during a brutal war that he had not originally wanted to fight or believed could be won. Through Livingston's life, Gigantino examines the complex nature of the conflict and the choice to wage it, the wartime bureaucrats charged with administering it, the constant battle over loyalty on the home front, the limits of patriot governance under fire, and the ways in which wartime experiences affected the creation of the Constitution.
The Selected Papers of John Jay: 1760-1779
Author: John JayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
John Jay (1745-1829) made contributions to all three branches of government, at both state and national levels. A leading representative of New York in the Continental Congress, he became one of the American commissioners who negotiated peace with Great Britain. He served the new republic as secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation, as a contributor to the Federalist papers, as the first chief justice of the United States, as negotiator of the 1794 "Jay Treaty" with Great Britain, and as a two-term governor of the state of New York. In his personal life, Jay embraced a wide range of religious, social, and cultural concerns, including the abolition of slavery.--Publisher's description.
The Papers of William Livingston: July 1777-December 1778
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The Papers of William Livingston: July 1780-April 1783
Author: William LivingstonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay
Author: John JayPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786445041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This collection of letters chronicles the personal lives of founding father John Jay and his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, in the tumultuous times during and after the American Revolution. The letters showcase Sarah as a devoted wife and mother who also helped further her husband's political career. Their correspondence reveals the abiding love of husband and wife, their concern for their children, the dangers and difficulties of travel, descriptions of the lands they visited and events they witnessed, as well as a sense of the effort it took to survive in the era even with the buffer of wealth. The book includes essays on the Jay and Livingston families, family trees, and information about the character and appearance of both husband and wife,and other topics. Importantly, there are textual bridges between the letters where necessary.
Author: John Marshall