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Hezekiah Butterworth
Brother Jonathan
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338089854
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PREFACE
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The writer has heretofore produced in the vein of fiction, after the manner of the Mühlbach interpretations, several books which were anecdotal narratives of the crises in the lives of public men. While they were fiction, they largely confided to the reader what was truth and what the conveyance of fiction for the sake of narrative form. It was the purpose of such a book to picture by folk-lore and local stories the early life of the man.
The folk-lore of a period usually interprets the man of the period in a very atmospheric way. Jonathan Trumbull, Washington’s “Brother Jonathan,” who had a part in helping to save the American army in nearly every crisis of the Revolutionary War, and who gave the popular name to the nation, led a remarkable life, and came to be held by Washington as “among the first of the patriots.” The book is a folk-lore narrative, with a thread of fiction, and seeks to picture a period that was decisive in American history, and the home and neighborhood of one of the most delightful characters that America has ever known—the Roger de Coverley of colonial life and American knighthood; very human, but very noble, always true; the fine old American gentleman—“Brother Jonathan.”