Leap in the Dark
Author: Anthony McCandless
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780002214285
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Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780002214285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Agnes De Mille
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780813035703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An anthology that includes excerpts from eight of de Mille's ten books, portions of the unpublished monograph "Russian Journals," and the entirety of her review of the London première of Balanchine's Prodigal Son
Author: Ian Cameron
Publisher: New York : Morrow, 1971 [c1970]
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 221
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kate Walker
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780263123579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. V. Dicey
Publisher: Tutis Digital Pub
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9788132054894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Ferling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-06-12
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 0199728704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first rumblings of colonial protest to the volcanic election of 1800. Ferling's swift-moving narrative teems with fascinating details. We see Benjamin Franklin trying to decide if his loyalty was to Great Britain or to America, and we meet George Washington when he was a shrewd planter-businessman who discovered personal economic advantages to American independence. We encounter those who supported the war against Great Britain in 1776, but opposed independence because it was a "leap in the dark." Following the war, we hear talk in the North of secession from the United States. The author offers a gripping account of the most dramatic events of our history, showing just how closely fought were the struggle for independence, the adoption of the Constitution, and the later battle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. Yet, without slowing the flow of events, he has also produced a landmark study of leadership and ideas. Here is all the erratic brilliance of Hamilton and Jefferson battling to shape the new nation, and here too is the passion and political shrewdness of revolutionaries, such as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, and their Loyalist counterparts, Joseph Galloway and Thomas Hutchinson. Here as well are activists who are not so well known today, men like Abraham Yates, who battled for democratic change, and Theodore Sedgwick, who fought to preserve the political and social system of the colonial past. Ferling shows that throughout this period the epic political battles often resembled today's politics and the politicians--the founders--played a political hardball attendant with enmities, selfish motivations, and bitterness. The political stakes, this book demonstrates, were extraordinary: first to secure independence, then to determine the meaning of the American Revolution. John Ferling has shown himself to be an insightful historian of our Revolution, and an unusually skillful writer. A Leap in the Dark is his masterpiece, work that provokes, enlightens, and entertains in full measure.
Author: Kresley Cole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501120646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conrad Wroth, a half-mad vampire imprisoned in a haunted manor to prevent him from harming others, finds himself tormented by the ghost of the once-famous ballerina Neomi Laress and decides to set her free in order to take her as his own.
Author: Donald Gordon
Publisher: Coronet
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780340162217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. V. Dicey
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781428047211
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 966
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