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Setting the world ablaze : Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution
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Setting the world ablaze : Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution

Author: John E Ferling
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This text is a biographical study of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and their struggle to erect a new nation. The sections chronologically examine major epochs in the lives of the  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; John Adams
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John E Ferling
ISBN: 0195150848 9780195150841
OCLC Number: 48753627
Notes: Originally published: 2000.
Description: xxiv, 392 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Prologue Embarked on a most tempestuous sea --
Distinguished from the common run of men: children who were fathers of the men --
Strong desire of distinction --
Vagaries of youth --
Getting under sail --
Decisions of youth --
This desultory life --
Toward mid-life --
Part two Fortitude, vigour, and perseverance --
Waging war and independence --
Epocha in history --
Revolutionaries --
To ride in this whirlwind --
Independence --
Turning the tide of arms --
War and reform --
Part three It is impossible to exceed this --
From despair to triumph --
Fatal crisis --
The Great peril, 1778-1780 --
Womb of fate --
Victory --
Who shall write the history of the American Revolution --
Memory and meaning --
Epilogue Sword and bulwark of the American Revolution.
Responsibility: John Ferling.

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