Declaration The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4 1776

Name: Declaration The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4 1776
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ISBN: 9781416584100

ISBN-10: 1416584102

ISBN-13: 9781416584100

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Authors: William Hogeland

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This is the rambunctious story of how America came to declare independence in Philadelphia in 1776. As late as that May, the Continental Congress had no plans to break away from England. Troops under General George Washington had been fighting the British for nearly a year, yet in Philadelphia a mighty bloc known as "reconciliationists," led by the influential Pennsylvanian John Dickinson, strove to keep America part of the British Empire. But a cadre of activists, led by the mysterious Samuel Adams of Massachusetts and assisted by his nervous cousin John plotted to bring about American independence. Their audacious secret plan proposed overturning the reconciliationist government of…

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List price: $23.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

William Hogeland is author of The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty. He lives in New York City.




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Blind Eyes



Black Silk



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Independence Days


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