Joel Richard Paul is a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of California Hastings Law School in San Francisco. He is the author of Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution, which was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post. He lives in northern California.
Books in order of publication:
Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution – 2009
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times – 2018
Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism – 2022
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