Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest Paperback - 2012

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"Heller has produced a valuable study for scholars of the Old Southwest and his work is a welcome update on Grundy.... Any student of American history would benefit by consulting both the model and content of this biographical work." -- The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"If you are interested in accurate American history and want to read a well-written story about a fascinating lawyer and public servant in the early days of our Republic, I recommend Democracy's Lawyer." -- Richard M. Mosk, Los Angeles Daily Journal

A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775--1840) epitomized the "American democrat" who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest's greatest criminal lawyer and one of the first radical political reformers in the fledgling United States. In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's entire life typifies the archetypal, post--Founding Fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions.