Albert J. Beveridge. The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1: Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755-1788
PREFACE
LIST OF ABBREVIATED TITLES MOST FREQUENTLY CITED
CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY AND ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER II. A FRONTIER EDUCATION
CHAPTER III. A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER IV. VALLEY FORGE AND AFTER
CHAPTER V. MARRIAGE AND LAW BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER VI. IN THE LEGISLATURE AND COUNCIL OF STATE
CHAPTER VII. LIFE OF THE PEOPLE: COMMUNITY ISOLATION
CHAPTER VIII. POPULAR ANTAGONISM TO GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER IX. THE STRUGGLE FOR RATIFICATION
CHAPTER X. IN THE GREAT CONVENTION
CHAPTER XI. THE SUPREME DEBATE
CHAPTER XII. THE STRATEGY OF VICTORY
APPENDIX
I. WILL OF THOMAS MARSHALL, "CARPENTER"
II. WILL OF JOHN MARSHALL "OF THE FOREST"
III. DEED OF WILLIAM MARSHALL TO JOHN MARSHALL "OF THE FOREST"
IV. MEMORIAL OF THOMAS MARSHALL FOR MILITARY EMOLUMENTS
WORKS CITED IN THIS VOLUME
Отрывок из книги
Beard: Econ. I. C. See Beard, Charles A. Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.
Beard: Econ. O. J. D. See Beard, Charles A. Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy.
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More than forty per cent of the men who made deeds or served on juries could not sign their names, although they were of the land-owning and better educated classes;82 the literacy of the masses, especially that of the women,83 was, of course, much lower.
An eager desire, among the "quality," for reading brought a considerable number of books to the homes of those who could afford that luxury.84 A few libraries were of respectable size and two or three were very large. Robert Carter had over fifteen hundred volumes,85 many of which were in Latin and Greek, and some in French.86 William Byrd collected at Westover more than four thousand books in half a dozen languages.87 But the Carter and Byrd libraries were, of course, exceptions. Byrd's library was the greatest, not only in Virginia, but in all the colonies, except that of John Adams, which was equally extensive and varied.88
