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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
de Chadwick, Bruce
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Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (2009). First Edition. First printing Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 280 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a black and white photograph and reproductions of contemporary works of art. George Wythe was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and was "America's first professor of law." One of his students, Thomas Jefferson considered him a "second father". Yet Wythe was murdered at the age of 80 in 1806 in his Richmond, Virginia home. The trial which followed was this country's first "trial of the century".
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
- Autor
- Chadwick, Bruce
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- Usado
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- First Edition
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- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Hoboken, New Jersey
- Fecha de publicación
- (2009)
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