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| Author: John E. Ferling |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0195176006
ISBN-13: 9780195176001
Buy.com Sku: 36415436
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 9H x 6L x 1.5T
Pages:
558
Age Range:
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| This major new history of the birth of the American republic is fast-paced and filled with sharp-eyed portraits and telling insights. 19 halftones & 7 maps. |
New Yorker
"This deft account of the American struggle for independence dispels the aura of inevitability that usually surrounds such histories by beginning its narrative not on the verge of the Revolution but twenty years earlier....Even as he takes the Founders off their pedestals, their accomplishments only gain in stature." 07/14/2003 Times Literary Supplement
"A LEAP IN THE DARK is popular history at its best. Ferling has drawn together the research of the leading historians and woven a masterful narrative that is written with grace and flair. This is an account loaded with facts but unburdened by them; the result is a book that never gets bogged down." - Gary L. McDowell 12/12/2003
"This deft account of the American struggle for independence dispels the aura of inevitability that usually surrounds such histories by beginning its narrative not on the verge of the Revolution but twenty years earlier....Even as he takes the Founders off their pedestals, their accomplishments only gain in stature." 07/14/2003 Times Literary Supplement
"A LEAP IN THE DARK is popular history at its best. Ferling has drawn together the research of the leading historians and woven a masterful narrative that is written with grace and flair. This is an account loaded with facts but unburdened by them; the result is a book that never gets bogged down." - Gary L. McDowell 12/12/2003
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