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\nThe New Jer sey \;gubernatorial election is Tuesday\, November 2\, 2021.
\nWilliam Livingston was the first governor of New Jersey.< /strong>
\n\;A wartime bureaucrat\, Livingston played a pivotal role in a pivotal place\, prosecuting the war on a daily basis for eight years. Such second-tier founding fathers as Livingston were the ones who a ctually administered the war and guided the day-to-day operations of revol utionary-era governments\, serving as the principal conduits between the l ocal wartime situation and the national demands placed on the states.
\ nIn the first biography of Livingston published since the 1830s\, James J. Gigantino's examination is as much about the position he filled as abo ut the man himself. The reluctant patriot and his roles as governor\, memb er of the Continental Congress\, and delegate to the Constitutional Conven tion quickly became one\, as Livingston's distinctive personality molded h is office's status and reach. A tactful politician\, successful lawyer\, w riter\, satirist\, political operative\, gardener\, soldier\, and statesma n\, Livingston became the longest-serving patriot governor during a brutal war that he had not originally wanted to fight or believed could be won. Through Livingston's life\, Gigantino examines the complex nature of the c onflict and the choice to wage it\, the wartime bureaucrats charged with a dministering it\, the constant battle over loyalty on the home front\, the limits of patriot governance under fire\, and the ways in which wartime e xperiences affected the creation of the Constitution.
\nPresented by : James \;Gigantino\, Professor of History and Chair of the Department at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of two books\, "The Ragge d Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey\, 1775-1865" publis hed by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014 and "William Livingsto n&rsquo\;s American Revolution\," also published by the University of Penn sylvania Press in 2018. He is also the editor of two books\, "Slavery and Secession in Arkansas" (University of Arkansas Press) and "The American Re volution in New Jersey: Where the Battlefront Meets the Home Front" (Rutge rs University Press)\, both published in 2015.
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