Includes views of the author’s statue of Nathan Hale; portraits of Hale’s contemporaries and of kindred characters; and also three drawings by W R Leigh. Partridge, American sculptor, lecturer and a writer (chiefly on art subjects), writes that this book is not a conventional biography of a revolutionary hero, with cuts of tombstones and dry historical data. It deals with the living present. In his statue and studies of this heroic life, he has attempted to give the very spirit of one of America’s foremost patriots - one who became a martyr on the threshold of his manhood and who died so that we might be free.