The Spirit of Seventy-six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants - Softcover

Commager, Henry Steele; Morris, Richard B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306806207 ISBN 13: 9780306806209

Verlag: Da Capo Press Inc, 1968

Inhaltsangabe

"Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it?" asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answerthe participants themselvesand in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers.Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history.

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Henry Steele Commager, adistinguished historian, has written many books, including The American Mind, and, as editor, Documents of American History and The Blue and the Gray. Richard B. Morris, one of our country's most respected scholars, has authored The American Revolution Reconsidered and John Jay: The Making of a Revolutionary.

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• Verlag: Da Capo Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1968
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0306806207
• ISBN 13: 9780306806209
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1440
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