A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American RepublicOxford University Press, 12. jun. 2003 - 576 strani It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first rumblings of colonial protest to the volcanic election of 1800. Ferling's swift-moving narrative teems with fascinating details. We see Benjamin Franklin trying to decide if his loyalty was to Great Britain or to America, and we meet George Washington when he was a shrewd planter-businessman who discovered personal economic advantages to American independence. We encounter those who supported the war against Great Britain in 1776, but opposed independence because it was a "leap in the dark." Following the war, we hear talk in the North of secession from the United States. The author offers a gripping account of the most dramatic events of our history, showing just how closely fought were the struggle for independence, the adoption of the Constitution, and the later battle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. Yet, without slowing the flow of events, he has also produced a landmark study of leadership and ideas. Here is all the erratic brilliance of Hamilton and Jefferson battling to shape the new nation, and here too is the passion and political shrewdness of revolutionaries, such as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, and their Loyalist counterparts, Joseph Galloway and Thomas Hutchinson. Here as well are activists who are not so well known today, men like Abraham Yates, who battled for democratic change, and Theodore Sedgwick, who fought to preserve the political and social system of the colonial past. Ferling shows that throughout this period the epic political battles often resembled today's politics and the politicians--the founders--played a political hardball attendant with enmities, selfish motivations, and bitterness. The political stakes, this book demonstrates, were extraordinary: first to secure independence, then to determine the meaning of the American Revolution. John Ferling has shown himself to be an insightful historian of our Revolution, and an unusually skillful writer. A Leap in the Dark is his masterpiece, work that provokes, enlightens, and entertains in full measure. |
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The Struggle to Create the American Republic John Ferling. “An Age of Revolution and Reformation” Abbreviations Notes Index Illustrations and Maps Illustrations Benjamin Franklin at age fiftyfour. Engraving.
The Struggle to Create the American Republic John Ferling. “An Age of Revolution and Reformation” Abbreviations Notes Index Illustrations and Maps Illustrations Benjamin Franklin at age fiftyfour. Engraving.
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The Struggle to Create the American Republic John Ferling. Illustrations. and. Maps. Illustrations Benjamin Franklin at age fiftyfour. Engraving by James McArdell after painting by Benjamin Wilson. (Courtesy, Franklin Collection, Yale ...
The Struggle to Create the American Republic John Ferling. Illustrations. and. Maps. Illustrations Benjamin Franklin at age fiftyfour. Engraving by James McArdell after painting by Benjamin Wilson. (Courtesy, Franklin Collection, Yale ...
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The Struggle to Create the American Republic John Ferling. A LEAP IN THE DARK 1 1754–1763 “Join, or Die” Benjamin Franklin stood on a.
The Struggle to Create the American Republic John Ferling. A LEAP IN THE DARK 1 1754–1763 “Join, or Die” Benjamin Franklin stood on a.
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... Franklin stood on a bobbing ship, bathed in a warm summer sun. On this golden morning in June 1754, he was sailing north on the bluegreen Hudson River, past dusty little villages and seemingly endless grand estates, beyond the gently ...
... Franklin stood on a bobbing ship, bathed in a warm summer sun. On this golden morning in June 1754, he was sailing north on the bluegreen Hudson River, past dusty little villages and seemingly endless grand estates, beyond the gently ...
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... Franklin spotted the old fort, still formidable with high, thick, grey stone walls.1 Franklin had come to Albany to prepare for war. King George's War, Great Britain's third war with France since 1689, had ended six years earlier ...
... Franklin spotted the old fort, still formidable with high, thick, grey stone walls.1 Franklin had come to Albany to prepare for war. King George's War, Great Britain's third war with France since 1689, had ended six years earlier ...
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To Crush the Spirit of the Colonies | |
To Die Freemen Rather Than to Live Slaves | |
This Wilderness of Darkness Dangers | |
The Present Paroxysm of Our Affairs | |
Prosperous at Home Respectable Abroad | |
A Colossus to the Antirepublican Party | |
A Game Where Principles Are the Stake | |
The Gigg Is Up | |
Abbreviations | |
Index | |
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A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic John Ferling Predogled ni na voljo - 2003 |
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