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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Bruce Chadwick


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""A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state.""

--Publishers Weekly

George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young proteg, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours later, when help arrived, Wythe was quick to tell anyone who would listen, ""I am murdered."" Over the next two weeks, as Wythe suffered a long and painful death, insults would be added to his mortal injury.

I Am Murdered tells the bizarre true story of Wythe's death and the subsequent trial of his grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney, for the crime--unquestionably the most sensational and talked-about court case of the era. Hinging on hit-and-miss forensics, the unreliability of medical autopsies, the prevalence of poisoning, race relations, slavery, and the law, Sweeney's trial serves as a window into early nineteenth- century America. Its particular focus is on Richmond, part elegant state capital and part chaotic boomtown riddled with vice, opportunism, and crime.

As Wythe lay dying, his doctors insisted that he had not been poisoned, and Sweeney had the nerve to beg him for bail money. In I Am Murdered, this signer of the Declaration of Independence, mentor to Thomas Jefferson, and ""Father of American Jurisprudence"" finally gets the justice he deserved.

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  • Title I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
  • Author Bruce Chadwick
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, New York, New York
  • Date 2009-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780470185513 / 0470185511
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Friendship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008015111
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.152

About the author

Bruce Chadwick is a historian of the American Revolution and colonial era whose books include George Washington's War, The General and Mrs. Washington, and The First American Army. He has also appeared on the History Channel.

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