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Zusatztext John Ferling has established himself as one of the leading chroniclers of the American Revolution! but Independence goes beyond anything he has written before. Informationen zum Autor John Ferling is professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of many books on the American Revolution, including The Ascent of George Washington ; Almost a Miracle ; A Leap in the Dark ; Whirlwind, a finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Book Prize ; and, most recently, Apostles of Revolution : Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe. He and his wife, Carol, live near Atlanta. JOHN FERLING, Professor of History at West Georgia College, is writing a biography of John Adams. He is the author of The Loyalist Mind (1977), A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America (1981), and The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (1988). No event in American history was more pivotal--or more furiously contested--than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. "Independence" takes readers from the cobblestones of Philadelphia into the halls of Parliament. Zusammenfassung With magisterial command and an unmatched sense of drama! John Ferling traces the political journey from protest to Revolution. Independence takes readers from the battlefields of Bunker Hill to the cobblestones of Philadelphia and into the halls of Parliament! where furious debate erupted over how to deal with the rebellion. Independence is not only the story of how freedom was won! but how an empire was lost.
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John Ferling is professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of many books on the American Revolution, including The Ascent of George Washington; Almost a Miracle; A Leap in the Dark; Whirlwind, a finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Book Prize; and, most recently, Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe. He and his wife, Carol, live near Atlanta.
JOHN FERLING, Professor of History at West Georgia College, is writing a biography of John Adams. He is the author of The Loyalist Mind (1977), A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America (1981), and The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (1988).
