by Richard Subber | Jun 19, 2022 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Revolutionary War
more new learning…
Book review:
Empire of Liberty:
A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
by Gordon S. Wood (b1933)
New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2009
Empire of Liberty is a finely detailed and well-informed examination of the early years of the United States.
You can trust Gordon Wood to give it all he has, and to give you a lot of new learning.
This 778-page volume is part of the Oxford History of the United States.
If you can’t read it all at once, pick it up again soon.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2022 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Sea Runners
…it informs, it does not soar…
by Ivan Doig
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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by Richard Subber | Jun 13, 2022 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Politics, Revolutionary War
…before the so-called Founding Fathers…
Book review:
The Unknown American Revolution:
The Unruly Birth of Democracy
and the Struggle to Create America
by Gary B. Nash
New York: The Penguin Group: Viking, 2005
The Unknown American Revolution is chock full of facts you probably don’t know about the evolution of the revolutionary spirit in the American colonies.
Here’s a hint: the leather-apron men and other lower class members of what the elites contemptuously termed “the mob” had a lot to do with it.
Gary Nash gives a book full of details demonstrating that there was a whole lot happening in the decades before the shoot-out on Lexington Green and the wrangling in Philadelphia in June and July of 1776.
There were a whole lot more folks—men and women—involved in addition to the so-called Founding Fathers.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2022 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Comanche Empire
it’s the other story of the American West…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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