George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

George Mason was a short bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon of honored Founding Fathers. Trained in the law Mason was also a farmer philosopher botanist and musician. He was one of the architects of the Declaration of Independence an author of the Bill of Rights and one of the strongest proponents of religious liberty in American history. In fact both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison may have been given undue credit for George Masons own contributions to American democracy.