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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
819 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? Those are the questions H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
"From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun--battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. In the early days of the nineteenth century, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
486 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and riveting narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British, but also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist and Patriot"--
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