{"product_id":"george-mason-forgotten-founder-9781469642512","title":"George Mason, Forgotten Founder:","description":"George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, \"of the first order of greatness.\" Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive account of Mason's life at the center of the momentous events of eighteenth-century America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMason played a key role in the Stamp Act Crisis, the American Revolution, and the drafting of Virginia's first state constitution. He is perhaps best known as author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a document often hailed as the model for the Bill of Rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Mason influenced the emerging Constitution on point after point. Yet when he was rebuffed in his efforts to add a bill of rights and concluded the document did too little to protect the interests of the South, he refused to sign the final draft. Broadwater argues that Mason's recalcitrance was not the act of an isolated dissenter; rather, it emerged from the ideology of the American Revolution. Mason's concerns about the abuse of political power, Broadwater shows, went to the essence of the American experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Broadwater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469642512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff Broadwater is professor of history at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. He is author of \u003ci\u003eEisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAdlai Stevenson and American Politics: The Odyssey of a Cold War Liberal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48377397870707,"sku":"9781469642512","price":67.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b3605c00-b6d2-4d33-9543-00c5b27ef26a.jpg?v=1789819280","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/george-mason-forgotten-founder-9781469642512","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}