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Canada and the United States

William Howard Adams. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 345. $30.00.

An unapologetic pursuer of sensual pleasures in private life, Gouverneur Morris was also one of the most farsighted and courageous politicians of the revolutionary generation. As a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Morris relentlessly attacked slavery in the face of the institution's diehard defenders, and as American ambassador to France from 1792 to 1794, he remained on the job throughout the Terror, condemning its atrocities in powerful, unambiguous language. Morris never backed down from his bold political motto: "Let Man take a great Line of Conduct and let him take the Consequences" (p. 121). Remarkably free of the demons of personal vanity and ambition, Morris did not repine or repent when the consequences of his actions and words proved to be loss of public office and branding as an unenlightened "aristocrat" by his Jeffersonian enemies.

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