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Richard B. Morris, an internationally known early American scholar, was a historian at both City College of New York and Columbia University. Morris' dissertation, Studies in the History of American Law, helped establish American legal history as a field. His Government and Labor in Early America was a landmark publication. He won the Bancroft Prize for his masterpiece, The Peacemakers, in 1966. This biography is based primarily on Morris' extensive papers and the recollections of historians who knew him well. Prominent historians of the twentieth century such as Evarts Greene, Charles M. Andrews, Lawrence Henry Gipson, Perry Miller, Merrill Jensen, Dumas Malone, Julian Boyd, Allan Nevins, and Henry Commager, among others, appear throughout. Subjects discussed include anti-Semitism, the celebrated New American Nation series, and Morris' suspicions about the innocence of Alger Hiss. This book was one of the History New Network's books of the month in July 2005.

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Ranlet has produced a well organized, smoothly flowing study. It will be of particular interest to historians and especially Morris students.--Wendell Tripp New York History

Ranlet has produced a well organized, smoothly flowing study. It will be of particular interest to historians and especially...Morris students. -- Wendell Tripp, SUNY Oneonta / New York State Historical Society * New York History *

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Philip Ranlet is Adjunct Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College, New York. Ranlet holds a doctorate from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He is author of The New York Loyalists (University Press of America, 2002).

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