| Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior Volume 1 Contributor(s): Quincy, Josiah (Author), Coquillette, Daniel R. (Editor), York, Neil Longley (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0962073792 ISBN-13: 9780962073793 Publisher: Colonial Society of Massachusetts OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the extraordinary mind of a patriot immediately before the Revolution, the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). In volume 2 of the series we are introduced to Quincy's Legal Commonplace Book; the companion of his Political Commonplace Book from volume 1, the Legal Commonplace Book illustrates the systematic program of reading through which aspiring young lawyers learned their trade in colonial New England. In the accompanying introduction, coeditor Daniel R. Coquillette explains how the system of legal apprenticeship worked in Boston and contends that the level of legal argument practiced in Massachusetts prior to the Revolution was much less provincial than previously assumed. Volume 2 also includes a new transcription of the journal Quincy kept on a 1773 trip to the southern colonies undertaken on behalf of the Boston Committee of Correspondence to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there, in which Quincy comments tartly on southern manners, womenfolk, and the institution of slavery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) |
| Dewey: 016.973 |
| Series: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.34" W x 9.52" (1.79 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775), Boston lawyer and patriot penman, had he lived longer could have been a leader of the new American Republic with a name familiar in most households. In a four-volume series, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts will reprint his major political and legal writings. Editor Neil Longley York provides a significant biographical introduction, followed by Quincy's Political Commonplace Book, in which the patriot noted down passages from his wide reading in politics and history that he believed relevant to his own times. Thus, readers have an unusual opportunity to enter into the extraordinary mind of a patriot immediately before the Revolution. A new edition of Quincy's London Journal follows, the record of his last-ditch efforts to stave off the impending conflict by seeking some possible ground for compromise with leading British politicians in the months before the battles at Lexington and Concord. Although the peace mission ultimately failed, the journal provides a fascinating record of how British society and leading figures in the government appeared to a young lawyer from a distant colony. |
