| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney. By Marty D. Matthews. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xx, 186 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-547-4.)
Charles Pinckney is an important figure in early American history whose public life stretched from the American Revolution to the Missouri Compromise. Yet until the publication of Marty D. Matthews's study we have had no full-length biography of the "forgotten Founder." Two reasons for the omission are his controversial career and the lack of a substantial collection of personal papers. In this book, which began as a doctoral dissertation at the University of South Carolina, Matthews has meticulously assembled available evidence, and he has written a careful, balanced account of Pinckney's role in the founding of the Republic.	1
Scion of a family that arrived in Carolina in 1691, Pinckney counted prominent planters and merchants among his ancestors. Born in 1757, Pinckney was younger than his famous cousins, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, who were educated in England. Though he enrolled in the Middle Temple, he was prevented from attending by the coming of the Revolution. Instead, Charles was schooled locally and read law with his father.	. . .

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