
Portrait of a Patriot V. 2
The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior
Josiah Quincy Jr.(Author)
Colonial Society of Massachusetts (Publisher)
Published on 31. August 2007
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-9620737-8-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9620737-8-6 (9780962073786)
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Persons
Daniel R. Coquillette is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor at Boston College and the Lester Kissel Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Neil Longley York is the Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education at Brigham Young University.