Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, [2], 329 p.: 8 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. (9½ inches). First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt printed spine title. Color illustrated dust jacket. Includes bibliography and index. No price listed. George Mason, a "wealthy Virginia planter. . . . helped mobilize colonial opposition to British taxation, and when the American Revolution began, Mason found himself at the forefront of Virginia's revolutionaries. In the critical year of 1776, Mason wrote most of Virginia's first state constitution, which was one of the first state constitutions in American history. Even more influential was Mason's authorship of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, often hailed as the model for the Bill of Rights. As one of the most respected delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Mason influenced the emerging Constitution on point after point. Yet when he was rebuffed in his efforts to add a bill of rights and felt the document did too little to protect the interests of the South, he refused to sign the final draft" [from the dust jacket]. ISBN 0-8078-3053-4. A significant addition to the corpus of American Revolutionary biographies. Book is in Fine/As New Condition. Dust Jacket is in Fine/As New Condition.. First Edition. Fine/Fine.