John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

A New York Occasions Notable Ebook of 1996

It was in tolling the demise of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, by no means to ring once more. An apt image of the person who formed each court docket and nation, whose life “reads like an early historical past of america,” because the Wall Avenue Journal famous, including: Jean Edward Smith “does a wonderful job of recounting the main points of Marshall’s life with out lacking the dramatic sweep of the historical past it encompassed.”

Working from major sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn a sublime portrait of a outstanding man. Lawyer, jurist, students; soldier, comrade, buddy; and, most particularly, lover of wonderful Madeira, good meals, and animated desk speak: the Marshall who emerges from these pages is noteworthy for his very human qualities as for his piercing mind, and, maybe most extraordinary, for his abilities as a frontrunner of males and a molder of consensus. A person of many elements, a real son of the Enlightenment, John Marshall did a lot for his nation, and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation demonstrates this on each web page.