Unshackling America: How The War Of 1812 Truly Ended The American Revolution
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Daedalus Books [269120], Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Ethan Allen has become legendary in the annals of the Revolutionary era, not least for his daring raid on Fort Ticonderoga in the predawn hours of May 10, 1775. But lost in his myth is the fact that this so-called Robin Hood of the Green Mountain settlers considerably enlarged his own family's holdings. Chronicling Allen's upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Willard Sterne Randall unlocks a trove of new material, particularly in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner of war."This is the first full biography of Ethan Allen in half a century, and the only one to render him a psychologically complicated, fully flawed hero of the American Revolution."—Joseph J. Ellis"Nuanced, multidimensional . Randall's book feels like it's charting territory as unexplored as the acreage that Allen . snapped up."—LATimes 619.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Daedalus Books [269120], Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Ethan Allen has become legendary in the annals of the Revolutionary era, not least for his daring raid on Fort Ticonderoga in the predawn hours of May 10, 1775. But lost in his myth is the fact that this so-called Robin Hood of the Green Mountain settlers considerably enlarged his own family's holdings. Chronicling Allen's upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, William Sterne Randall unlocks a trove of new material, particularly in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner of war."This is the first full biography of Ethan Allen in half a century, and the only one to render him a psychologically complicated, fully flawed hero of the American Revolution."—Joseph J. Ellis"Nuanced, multidimensional . Randall's book feels like it's charting territory as unexplored as the acreage that Allen . snapped up."—LATimes 619.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AbeBooks Marketplace 4.
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father. Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state. Chronicling Allen’s upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen’s life—his capture during the aborted American invasion of Canada, his philosophical works that influenced Thomas Paine, his seminal role in gaining Vermont statehood, his stirring funeral in 1789—Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth, historical folklore that people have handed down, as if Allen were Paul Bunyan. As Randall reveals, Ethan Allen, a so-called Robin Hood in the eyes of his dispossessed Green Mountain settlers, aggrandized, and unabashedly so, the holdings of his own family, a fact that is glossed over in previous accounts, embellishing his own best-selling prisoner-of-war narrative as well. He emerges not only as a public-spirited leader but as a self-interested individual, often no less rapacious than his archenemies, the New York land barons of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. As John E. Ferling comments, “Randall has stripped away the myths to provide as accurate an account of Allen’s life as will ever be written.” The keen insights that he produces shed new light, not only on this most enigmatic of Founding Fathers, but on today’s descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, whose own political disenfranchisement resonates now more than ever. 16 pages of illustrations, Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Label: W. W. Norton & Company, W. W. Norton & Company, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2011-08-22, Studio: W. W. Norton & Company, Verkaufsrang: 497073.

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Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary Period of 1763 to 1783 had concluded only one part, the first phase of their ordeal. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War halted overt combat but had achieved only partial political autonomy from Britain. By not guaranteeing American economic independence and agency, Britain continued to deny American sovereignty. Randall details the fifty years and persistent attempts by the British to control American trade waters, but he also shows how, despite the outrageous restrictions, the United States asserted the doctrine of neutral rights and developed the world's second largest merchant fleet as it absorbed the French Caribbean trade. American ships carrying trade increased five-fold between 1790 and 1800, its tonnage nearly doubling again between 1800 and 1812, ultimately making the United States the world's largest independent maritime power.

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Ethan Allen: His Life and Times Randall, Willard Sterne, While Ethan Allen embodied the virtues and vices of the nation's Founding Fathers more colorfully than any of his more venerated and aristocratic counterparts, he is often defined by a single night in 1775, when he led a daring predawn attack on Fort Ticonderoga. However, as the man who almost single-handedly brought the state of Vermont into the Union, Allen was an enigmatic product of the American frontier, blessed with an extraordinary intellect and hot-tempered propensity for action. Unlocking a trove of new source material, including previously ignored evidence of Allen's inhuman treatment as a prisoner of war, Pulitzer Prize finalist Willard Sterne Randall gives us the first comprehensive portrait of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys in half a century. He masterfully evokes the upward struggle from childhood poverty to command of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution. This is the seminal biography of a man whose "come out of there, you damned old rat" determination helped define a nation.

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Willard Sterne Randall, Books, History, Unshackling America: How The War Of 1812 Truly Ended The American Revolution, Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary Period of 1763 to 1783 had concluded only one part, the first phase of their ordeal. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War halted overt combat but had achieved only partial political autonomy from Britain. By not guaranteeing American economic independence and agency, Britain continued to deny American sovereignty. Randall details the fifty years and persistent attempts by the British to control American trade waters, but he also shows how, despite the outrageous restrictions, the United States asserted the doctrine of neutral rights and developed the world's second largest merchant fleet as it absorbed the French Caribbean trade. American ships carrying trade increased five-fold between 1790 and 1800, its tonnage nearly doubling again between 1800 and 1812, ultimately making the United States the world's largest independent maritime power.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Qwestbooks [52241549], Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.
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