The Wall Street Journal has Alan Pell Crawford’s review of Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet by Bill Kauffman (makes me want to read the book, by one of today's greats):
In “Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet,” a short and engaging biography of Luther Martin (1748-1826), Bill Kauffman shows us a sot, a quarrelsome bore, a butcher of the English language, an outspoken abolitionist who himself owned slaves — and a man who advanced opinions at the Constitutional Convention that desperately needed to be heard.
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