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Informationen zum Autor Ed Southern was a Wake Forest senior studying in London when he walked into the 200-year-old bookshop Hatchard’s and realized how excited the possibilities presented by shelves full of books made him. After graduation, he worked at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Hanging around after he finished setting up for lectures, concerts, performances, and classes gave him an excellent postgraduate education in the liberal arts, which came in handy later when he dropped out of graduate school. He went to work for one of the major bookselling chains and was a member of the training team sent to open the company’s first store in London, a massive four-story media emporium on Oxford Street. It was a bit like coming full circle, but not quite. A year later, he left the bookstore and went to work for John F. Blair, Publisher, as the sales director. He presently serves as the executive director of the North Carolina Writers Network. Klappentext This book uses 27 firsthand accounts from actual participants to show how it felt to fight the American Revoution frm Charleston to Camden! from Charlotte to Kings Mountain! from Cowpens to Guilford Courthouse.Readers hear from self-taught tactician Nathanael Greene! who won the war in the Carolinas without ever winning a battle;from rough-hewn Daniel Morgan! the Continentals' finest battle captain; from Andrew Jackson! whose beating by a British officer may have influeneced American policy decades later; from foot soldiers and Tory partisan David Fanning! and from the dreaded "Blood Ban" Tarleton. Zusammenfassung This book uses 27 firsthand accounts from actual participants to help readers experience what life was like between 1775 and 1782.
