William P. Murchison
Auteur de The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de William P. Murchison
The Human Life Review, Spring/Summer 2000, 25th Anniversary Issue (Volume XXVI, Nos. 2&3) 1 exemplaire
TV is Demolishing Culture 1 exemplaire
TV vs. America 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Murchison, William P.
- Date de naissance
- 1942-02-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Professions
- journalist
- Organisations
- Watchdog.org
Chronicles magazine
Dallas Morning News
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 94
- Popularité
- #199,202
- Évaluation
- 2.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 8
Serious scholars know him better as author of the "Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer" which played a major role in making the American case against British tax policy before the revolution and creating the climate which led to the revolution.
After the crisis over the declaration, Dickinson served briefly in the American army in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, then was governor of both Delaware and Pennsylvania (briefly simultaneously, though mostly earlier for Delaware an later for Pennsylvania), took a role in the Constitutional Convention (chiefly defending the power of the states in selecting the US Senate), but was lss active then and thereafter due to declining health, though he lived long enough to become, rather oddly for on who had supported the wealthier side in Pennsylvania politics, a strong partisan of France and an enthusiastic Jeffersonian Democratic Republican, enthusiastically hailing Jefferson's election as president. In this he was quite different from most of the others in this series who tended to be Federalists.… (plus d'informations)