In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication.
As the treasury secretary had already postponed his retirement for eighteen months, Washington made no attempt to dissuade Hamilton, though the president acknowledged that he had always wished to prevent his leaving. Thereafter, in a nearly identical letter to the one he had written when Jefferso...
TJ to Samuel Kercheval, July 13, 1816, quoted in R. B. Bernstein, The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (New York, 2009), 108.2. JA to AA, April 26, 1777, AFC 2:224.CHAPTER 1: “IN THE VERY MIDST OF A REVOLUTION”: THE PROPOSAL TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE1. Journal of Lord Adam Gordon, in Howard H. Peckham...