Gouverneur Morris as “The Wolf”
Jonathan Rowe on May 30th 2006
Watching Richard Brookhiser interviewed on After Words this weekend left me wanting to read his book on Gouverneur Morris.
Brookhiser described Morris as being like “The Wolf” (Harvey Keitel’s character) from Pulp Fiction: If you were in a bind, he was the man to call. As Brookhiser put it in this interview: “If you were broke, or in jail, or had lost the dearest person in your life, and you needed money, help, or consolation, the first Founder you would call would be Morris.” Yet, Brookhiser joked, if you had him over for dinner you’d never seat him next to your wife or your daughter. Morris seemed to be an avid womanizer and fornicator.
And yes, like the other key Founders, Morris was a theistic rationalist.
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