![]() ![]() But Brookhiser reads Marshall's career in conjunction with his personality, and the modern author sees that the Founder did not picture himself as a creator of the nation. It's not clear what else one would need to call Marshall a Founding Father. Adams nominated him to the Supreme Court before leaving office in 1801. He served as a congressman, an American minister to France during the 1797 XYZ Affair, and then secretary of state in 1800. As a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, he helped push through Virginia's ratification of the Constitution. After all, Marshall fought with the Continental Army during the Revolution. The temptation is to see Marshall primarily as one of the younger Founders, of an age with Hamilton. A 2003 volume on the little discussed Gouverneur Morris, "the rake who wrote the Constitution," soon followed, and then a 2011 look at the much discussed James Madison-and a 2014 book on the even more discussed Abraham Lincoln, whom Brookhiser read as the "Founders' son."Ĭuriously, that title might have been reserved for Brookhiser's latest subject, John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. And the 2002 book on John Adams, extended into a discussion of the whole family of Adamses, America's first dynasty. There's the 1999 book on Alexander Hamilton, for example, demonstrating the pull toward the Federalists that Brookhiser feels. ![]()
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