This 'fascinating' and 'splendidly researched biography' - as it is described in Professor Morris's foreword- presents convincing evidence that the American Revolution wrought basic economic, ideological, political, and social changes in the life of individuals and institutions. 'As Dr. Austin persuasively portrays him,' according to the foreword, 'Lyon was one of the new breed of upwardly mobile political figures, quick to profit from the expanding economy of the post-Revolutionary and early national years, yet caught up in the challenges of state and nation-building.' A teen-aged indentured servant from Ireland in 1764, Lyon by the end of the Revolution was a militia colonel, a developer of an iron manufacturing town, and a founder of the new state of Vermont, Colonel Lyon campaigned as much against the New York 'Aristo-Tories' as against the ministers of George III. He and his fellow frontiersmen flirted with the British command until Congress recognized Vermont's statehood. In 1801, at the age of 52, Lyon transplanted his family to the Kentucky frontier, founded a mercantile town, and was again elected to Congress. The last section of the book traces Lyon's vacillating political stance in the House between 1802 and 1810, his conflicts over using slave labor, his financial and political reversals during the war of 1812, and his final years as a U.S. Factor to the Cherokee Nation in the Arkansas Territory.
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Aleine Austin, author of The Labor Story, has taught American history at Western Maryland College and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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This book was purchased for a very special Christmas gift to a brother-in-law whose Family are descendents of Matthew Lyon. They had one copy in their family but I purchased this one for my sister's husband. It arrived very close to Christmas without a dust jacket or cover that was suggested by this listing by this seller. I have emailed this book seller three times and tried to contact thru Amazon all to no avail. How embarrassing to have to give a book sans the cover when the grandfather had a perfect copy. Had I known this I could have purchased this book from another seller. I still cannot believe the audacity of this seller to refuse to communicate back with me to rectify the situation. They are not to be trusted and should be removed from Amazon.com period. They proverbially and literally took the money and ran...
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