Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Ellis, Joseph J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804120900 ISBN 13: 9780804120906

Verlag: Random House Large Print, 2013

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Book by Ellis Joseph J

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A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.

The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.
Revolutionary Summer tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling.

Biografía del autor:

Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He recently retired from his position as the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and their youngest son.

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• Verlag: Random House Large Print
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0804120900
• ISBN 13: 9780804120906
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378