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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Revolutionary summer
    sub title: the birth of American independence
  name:
    name part: Ellis, Joseph J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    edition: First Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Pulitzer-winning American historian Joseph Ellis tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Britain's Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.
  table of contents: Prudence dictates -- Of arms and men -- Dogs that did not bark -- Etc., etc., etc -- After virtue -- The fog of war -- Hearts and minds -- A long war -- Postscript: necessary fictions.
  note: Joseph J. Ellis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
  classification: E208 .E48 2013
  classification: 973.3
  identifier: 9780307701220
  identifier: 0307701220
  identifier: 2012026140
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120628
    record change date: 20151205115124.0
    record identifier: in00003329643