Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. True Spirit -- 2. Pilgrim -- 3. Alert -- 4. The Vow -- 5. The Book -- 6. Boston, Brahmins, and the Business of Law -- 7. The Masquerade -- 8. The Great Man of the Age -- 9. The Inheritance -- 10. A Monstrous Thing -- 11. Chains -- 12. Boycott -- 13. The Little Darky Lawyer -- 14. The Club -- 15. The Presumption of Freedom -- 16. Who Can Tell What a Day May Bring Forth -- 17. Duty -- 18. Breakdown -- 19. Around the World -- 20. The Supreme Court Argument That Saved the Union -- 21. The Duke of Cambridge -- 22. Treason -- 23. The Rating -- 24. One of Them Damn Literary Fellers -- 25. Last Voyage -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer's memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana's determination to keep that vow
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Notes
AmestoyJeffrey L.: Jeffrey L. Amestoy has served as Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and is a Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 10 2015)
