Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin

by Bill Kauffman

Book Overview

The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us--if he is known at all--as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. In Bill Kauffman's rollicking account of his turbulent life and times, Martin is still something...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610171489
• ISBN13: 9781610171489
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.7"