George Mason : the founding father who gave us the Bill of Rights / William G. Hyland Jr.

"George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotten by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hyland, William G., Jr., 1956- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Regnery History, 2019.
Subjects:	Mason, George, > 1725-1792. United States. > Declaration of Independence > History. United States. > Constitution > Signers. Constitution (United States) Declaration of Independence (United States) Founding Fathers of the United States > Biography. Constitutional history > United States > Biography. United States > Politics and government > 1783-1789 > Biography. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography. Constitutional history. Founding Fathers of the United States. Politics and government. United States. 1775-1789 Biographies. History.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies. History.
Physical Description:	xxxiv, 491 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Origins
Ann Eilbeck Mason
Gunston Hall
The two Georges
The Ohio company
Revolutionary
The Virginia Constitution
War and death
A new constitution for a new country
The Philadelphia Convention
Objections
A slow poison
The Virginia Ratifying Convention
The true father of the Bill of Rights
The shade of retirement
The stage of human life
A George Mason chronology
George Mason's drafts for the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Constitution (1776)
George Mason's objections to the Federal Constitutions (1787).