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This edition is sponsored by InterVarsity Press
I love any opportunity to learn something new, so today’s set of reviews by historian John Fea was a delight. He examines three biographies of America’s founding fathers, each of which highlights aspects of their character typically overlooked in history classes—and in the case of Gouverneur Morris, highlights a founder most Americans may have never learned about in the first place.
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Taylor Berglund
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Three Books on History
Scott S. Greenberger, The Forsaken Founder: Gouverneur Morris, the Unsung Patriot Who Wrote the Constitution, Stood Up to Slavery, and Survived the Reign of Terror (37 Ink, 2026)
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union.” Americans recognize these words as the preamble to the United States Constitution, but most have no clue who wrote them. Writer Scott Greenberger wants to remedy this lack of historical acknowledge by introducing us to the preamble’s author: Gouverneur Morris.
As the title of Greenberger’s book indicates, he suggests a few reasons Morris has been largely forgotten. His tastes and style were too aristocratic for a country of common farmers; he did not believe the masses could be trusted to make wise decisions for the country; his well-documented sexual escapades made him unpalatable to the Puritan sensibilities of many Americans; and he supported the secession of the New England colonies following the War of 1812.