As Paul (Constitutional and International Law/Univ.
The eldest of 15 children born to an impoverished Virginia farmer, he had only a few months of formal education but served as a foot soldier at Valley Forge, a commissioner to France during the XYZ Affair, secretary of state to John Adams, and finally chief justice, a post to which Adams appointed him to resist the partisans of incoming president Thomas Jefferson.
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He lives in Northern California.A biography of the fourth and greatest chief justice of the United States. He is the author of Without Precedent: Chief Justice Marshall and His Times, and Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Saved the American Revolution. Joel Richard Paul is a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of California Hastings Law School in San Francisco. And that is why we are delighted to share with you here from historian and constitutional scholar Joel Richard Paul-INDIVISIBLE: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism, a fascinating account of the brilliant and complex figure who defined what it means to be an American. Considered one of the greatest orators of his time and a statesman in the same league as Washington, Hamilton and Madison, who earned the reputation “defender of the Constitution,” Webster is a profoundly influential but often overlooked titan of American history. That is until Massachusetts Senator and later Secretary of State Daniel Webster entered the scene, popularizing the ideas of American nationalism that helped forge a sense of national identity, one that would later inspire Abraham Lincoln to fight to preserve the union and launch the Civil War. They tended to think of themselves more as Virginians or New Yorkers, not Americans. What was an American after the United States was founded in 1776? Most Americans of the day would be stumped by that question.
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