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Author Murchison, William P.

Title The cost of liberty : the life of John Dickinson / William Murchison.

Publication Info. Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.3092 M93    Check Shelf
Description x, 252 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Lives of the founders
Lives of the founders.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "The fields are full of promises" -- "An immense bustle in the world" -- "You rivet perpetual chains upon your unhappy country" -- "My dear countrymen" -- "In freedom we're born, and in freedom we'll live" -- "There is a spirit of liberty among us" -- "The force of accumulated injuries" -- "To die free-men rather than to live like slaves" -- "War is actually begun" -- "Let my country treat me as she pleases" -- "The finishing blow" -- "Willingly to resign my life" -- "The sacred voice of my country" -- "Acting before the world" -- "Experience must be our only guide".
Subject Dickinson, John, 1732-1808.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Continental Congress -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Delaware -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
ISBN 9781933859941
1933859946
Standard No. 40022804161
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