One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773–1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-servin

Rev. ed. of: Randolph of Roanoke. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1951. Bibliography: p. 471-478.

"This book tries to understand his eccentricity as a partially controlled reaction to an American regime whose terms of political activity he could not accept."

In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about t