Endorsement for Patrick Henry bio

Richard Beeman, John Welsh Centennial Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, says of my Patrick Henry bio:


“Thomas Kidd’s account of the life of Patrick Henry combines first-rate scholarship with a lively and elegant gift for story-telling. It makes a powerful case for the Virginia orator’s pre-eminent role in the fight to limit central government power during the era of the Revolution and early republic.”

Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots will be out in November with Basic Books.

Document reader on faith and the Founding

The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents, co-edited by me and Matthew Harris (Colorado State) will be out in November with Oxford University Press.