Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior

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Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775), Boston lawyer and patriot penman, had he lived longer could have been a leader of the new American Republic with aname familiar in most households. In a five-volume series, the Colonial Society ofMassachusetts will reprint his major political and legal writings. Editor NeilLongley York provides a significant biographical introduction, followed by Quincy's"Political Commonplace Book, "in which the patriotnoted down passages from his wide reading in politics and history that he believedrelevant to his own times. Thus, readers have an unusual opportunity to enter intothe extraordinary mind of a patriot immediately before the Revolution. A new editionof Quincy's "London Journal" follows, the record ofhis last-ditch efforts to stave off the impending conflict by seeking some possibleground for compromise with leading British politicians in the months before thebattles at Lexington and Concord. Although the peace mission ultimately failed, thejournal provides a fascinating record of how British society and leading figures inthe government appeared to a young lawyer from a distantcolony. Distributed for the Colonial Society ofMassachusetts