Patrick Henry and the Lesson of the Loyal Opposition

John Ragosta, in a brilliant recuperation of Henry’s reputation and a nod toward the politics of today, shows that like Washington, Henry feared that partisanship threatened the foundations of the republic.

Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons
Lithograph of Patrick Henry. Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons

‘For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle’
By John Ragosta
University of Virginia Press, 304 pages

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