John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833 (Classic Reprint): A Biography Based Largely on New Material: A Biography Based Largely on New Material (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833: A Biography Based Largely on New Material

The same thing is true of the chapters on Randolph in J. G. Baldwin's Party Leaders and Prof. R. H. Dabney's John Randolph, a Character Sketch. There are besides some brief sketches of Randolph by other hands, but they are so plainly outside of the field intended to be occupied by this book that they need not be further mentioned here.

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Excerpt from John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833: A Biography Based Largely on New Material

The biography (so-called) of Randolph by Lemuel Sawyer is but a mere memoir; though by no means negligible, because Sawyer served for many years in the House of Representatives with Randolph, and, while sharing the prejudice against him, felt by all the fervid Jeffersonians, after the breach between him and Jefferson, was an ardent but not an indiscriminate admirer of Randolph's genius; and was an admirer, in many respects, of his character too. But, even if Sawyer's book were a much more extensive one, he had a failing which is enough to destroy, or all but destroy, the value of any book, brief or otherwise; that is, gross inaccuracy. He was, we are told by John Quincy Adams, a writer of poems and plays, as well as a Congressman, and no playwright or poet ever deliberately took more license with historical facts than Sawyer did in the loose statements of his memoir.

The Reminiscences of the Home Life of John Randolph of Roanoke by Powhatan Bouldin contains much contemporary testimony about Randolph of the highest importance, but, as its title indicates, its scope is limited.

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