| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

George Mason: Forgotten Founder. By Jeff Broadwater. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 329 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3053-6.)
Jeff Broadwater offers an insightful and elegantly written biography restoring George Mason, often dismissed as being an Antifederalist obstructionist, to the pantheon of revolutionary-era leaders. He structures his analysis around several broad themes: Mason's role as a member of the landed gentry, his adherence to the principles of republicanism, his commitment to the interests of Virginia, and his changing relationships with his peers.	1
Mason was a successful planter. He increased his property holdings to provide for his children, lived within his means, and cultivated grain as tobacco became less profitable. As his often-quoted statements at the Philadelphia convention attest, he abhorred the institution of slavery but nonetheless relied on slave labor. Like other Virginians, he speculated in western lands. He was not, however, especially vexed by the Proclamation of 1763 and continued to devise ways to protect his investments well into the 1780s.	. . .

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