Publisher's Synopsis
A short book about the authors' remarkable ancestor, Matthew Lyon, Congressman from Vermont, thrown into jail for criticizing then President John Adams, under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The story of a young Irish immigrant who became a leader in the Republican Party of his time, a crusading newspaper editor and founder of two towns in Vermont and Kentucky. It makes history come alive in our times with warnings for us to treasure and protect our First Amendment rights.
