Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has Alan Pell Crawford’s a review of Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet by Bill Kauffman:

In “Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet,” a short and engaging biography of Luther Martin (1748-1826), Bill Kauffman shows us a sot, a quarrelsome bore, a butcher of the English language, an outspoken abolitionist who himself owned slaves — and a man who advanced opinions at the Constitutional Convention that desperately needed to be heard.