Jon Kukla is the author of Mr. Jefferson's Women and A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, as well as many scholarly articles and reviews. He has directed research at the Library of Virginia and served as executive director of Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial in Virginia.
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Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney and planter, and an outstanding orator in the movement for independence. A contemporary of Washington, Henry stood with John and Samuel Adams among the leaders of the colonial resistance to Great Britain that ul... SEE MORE