Bücher von Charles S. Sydnor

From Simon & Schuster, and originally published as Gentlemen Freeholders, American Revolutionaries in the Making is Charles S. Sydnor's exploration of the political practices in Washington's Virginia.A masterclass in political ideology and a expansive history of the early American colonization, Charles S. Sydnor's American Revolutionaries in the Making tracks the many political strategies and practices in the era of George Washington's Virginia.

Provides a vivid picture of late eighteenth-century Virginia's keen and often hot-tempered local politics. Sydnor has filled his book with the lively details of campaign practices, the drama of election day, the workings of the county oligarchies, and the practical politics of that training school for statesmen, the Virginia House of Burgesses.