MORRIS, Gouverneur, 1752-1816



Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office

Extended Bibliography

Adams, Willi Paul. “ ‘The Spirit of Commerce Requires that Property Be Sacred’: Gouverneur Morris and the American Revolution.” American Studies 21 (1976): 309-34.

Adams, William Howard. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Brookhiser, Richard. Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Davenport, Beatrix Cary, ed. A Diary of the French Revolution. 2 vols. 1939. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.

Kaufman, Arthur Paul. “The Constitutional Views of Gouverneur Morris.” Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 1992.

Kirschke, James J. Gouvernor Morris: Author, Statesman, and Man of the World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Kline, Mary-Jo. Gouverneur Morris and the New Nation, 1775-1788. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

Lodge, Henry Cabot. “Gouverneur Morris.” In Historical and Political Essays, pp. 75-113. 1892. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

Massaro, Dominic R. “Gouverneur Morris: The Constitutional Penman Revisited." Bronx County Historical Society Journal 24 (1987): 67-83.

Mintz, Max M. Gouverneur Morris and the American Revolution. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Morris, Anne Cary, ed. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris. 2 vols. 1888. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.

Nedelsky, Jennifer. “Aristocratic Capitalism: The Federalist Alternative of Gouverneur Morris.” In Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism, pp. 67-95. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Robinson, Donald L. “Gouverneur Morris and the Design of the American Presidency.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 17 (Spring 1987): 319-28.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Gouverneur Morris. 1899. Reprint, with new introduction by Mary-Jo Kline. New York: Chelsea House, 1980.

Sparks, Jared. The Life of Gouverneur Morris, with Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers. 3 vols. Boston: Gray & Bowen, 1832.

Swiggett, Howard. Extraordinary Mr. Morris. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1952.