Edmund Morgan Quotes
It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
Adams liked hardly anyone. Washington, his fellow Federalist was President when Adams was Vice President. He had little use for fellow Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton. See {621582} . Washington was by no means illiterate. He was an excellent writer, and was a trained surveyor who also had strong mathematical skills. The founding fathers were an amazingly well educated group of men, and Washington was about average in that rarefied atmosphere. Jefferson and Hamilton who arguably were far more learned than Adams, and who worked with Washington in his cabinet, never complained about Washington's intellectual or education capability. The problem was Adams who was critical of almost all.
Edmund Sears Morgan was an American historian, an eminent authority on early American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
