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Cargando... The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants (1958)por Henry Steele Commager (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is the type of history I really enjoy. We are seeing the events through the eyes of the people involved and not through the gloss of future historians. When a historians writes of events they know for the most part what happened but because the people whose writings are collected in this book don’t know what is going to happen I feel that we get a truer sense of what happened and what they actually thought at the time. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 answer--the participants themselves--and 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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