John E Ferling
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. Adams vs. Jefferson is a gripping account of a true turning...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 409 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in the authoritative and narrative-driven style that has made his books critical and commercial successes, John Ferling's Whirlwind will become the definitive history of the American Revolution for our time. This master historian illuminates the years 1763 to 1783--from the end of the French and Indian War that left England triumphant in North America to the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the final departure of British troops from New...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 701 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Winning Independence is the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain--so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation--ultimately failed to win the war. The book explores the choices and decisions made by Clinton and Washington, and others, that ultimately led the French and American allies to clinch the pivotal victory at Yorktown that at long last secured American independence.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
xvi, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe were in the vanguard of revolutionary ideas in the 18th century. As founding fathers, they risked their lives for American independence, but they also wanted more. Each wished for profound changes in the political and social fabric of pre-1776 America and hoped that the American Revolution would spark republican and egalitarian revolutions throughout Europe, sweeping away the old monarchical order....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America... The decade of the 1790s has been called the 'age of passion.' Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic-- each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was...
