Unique portrait of America's first founding father: A biography through his maps. Many audiences: American history aficionados; Washington and founding fathers buffs; map lovers. Maps are fascinating: And Washington's maps illuminate his time and career. History made vivid by geography.
Crunching historical time into familiar space, Schecter uses New York as a 'fixed point, a compass for orienting oneself amid the many disparate theaters and battles of the long, complex war.' Marching us through battle where today we bank and shop, learn and live, reinforces the lessons that our freedoms had to be earned, and were not guaranteed. New York Times Book Review on The Battle for New York Barnet Schecter tells the extraordinary story of how Central Park and Fifth Avenue were battlefields in the struggle for American independence. John Keegan on Thr Battle for New York Schecter's riveting narrative places the violence, dramatized by Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York, in a national context, as a microcosm of forces that deferred integration for a century. USA Today on The Devil's Own Work
Historian Barnet Schecter is the author of The Battle for New York, the hinge battle in the American Revolution, and The Devil's Own Work, a chronicle of the Civil War draft riots in New York. He lives in New York City.
Crunching historical time into familiar space, Schecter uses New York as a 'fixed point, a compass for orienting oneself amid the many disparate theaters and battles of the long, complex war.' Marching us through battle where today we bank and shop, learn and live, reinforces the lessons that our freedoms had to be earned, and were not guaranteed. New York Times Book Review on The Battle for New York Barnet Schecter tells the extraordinary story of how Central Park and Fifth Avenue were battlefields in the struggle for American independence. John Keegan on Thr Battle for New York Schecter's riveting narrative places the violence, dramatized by Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York, in a national context, as a microcosm of forces that deferred integration for a century. USA Today on The Devil's Own Work
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