The Founding Father Who Sought a Last-Minute Deal to Avert the Revolution

“It’s hard to overstate the significance of this,” said Jonathan Gienapp, an associate professor of history and law at Stanford University, who co-wrote the introductory essay with Jane E. Calvert, a Dickinson scholar. “This is a very serious attempt by arguably the leading politician in America at the time to broker a peace and prevent the American Revolution from happening that we’ve never known about before.”