The Life and Character of Patrick Henry

xvi, 468 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. A biography of Patrick Henry. "Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 - June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786."