Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives - Couverture souple

Shorto, Russell

 
9780393356212: Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

Synopsis

With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution. "An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft" (Chicago Tribune), Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today, and that its ideals are worth defending.

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À propos de l?auteur

Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of Revolution Song and The Island at the Center of the World, and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine.

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With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution. "An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft" (Chicago Tribune), Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today, and that its ideals are worth defending.

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With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution. "An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft" (Chicago Tribune), Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today, and that its ideals are worth defending.

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0393245543 ISBN 13 :  9780393245547
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2017
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