Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians; but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies―in New York and New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania. In My American Revolution; Robert Sullivan delves into this first Middle America; digging for a glorious; heroic past in the urban; suburban; and sometimes even rural landscape of today.Sullivan's history is personal; anecdotal; experiential. He visits the down-home reenactment of the crossing of the Delaware; which has taken place each year for the past half century; and uncovers the fact behind the myth. He camps in New Jersey backyards; hikes through lost "mountains;" and wrecks his back―then evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade boat. He recounts a Brooklyn historian's failed attempt to memorialize a colonial Maryland regiment; a tattoo artist's more successful use of a colonial submarine; which resulted in his 2007 arrest by the New York City police and the FBI; and the life of Philip Freneau; the first (and not great) poet of American independence; who died in a swamp in the snow.Like an almanac; My American Revolution moves through the calendar of American independence with the eternally charming Robert Sullivan as our guide. This is a fiercely individual and often hilarious journey; in the process of making our revolution his; Sullivan shows us how alive our own history is; right under our noses.
#9650903 in Books Bona Giovanni 2010-06-10Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 7.44 x .46 x 9.69l; .87 #File Name: 1170902650216 pagesA Guide to Eternity Extracted Out of the Writings of the Holy Fathers and Ancient Philosophers Written Originally in Latin by John Bona
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