Revolution song : a story of American freedom
La jaquette porte : "In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the American nation, drawing on diaries, letters and autobiographies to flesh out six lives that cast the era in a fresh new light. They include an African man who freed himself and his family from slaver...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Revolution song : a story of American freedom / Russell Shorto |
Publié : |
New York :
W.W. Norton & Company
, copyright 2018 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xii-621 pages) |
Sujets : |
- Sons of fathers
- A tide in the affairs of men
- The turtle's back
- The charming sound of bullets
- World on fire
- This land I have made for you and not for others
- The spirit that rages
- Thirteen toasts
- Assuming command
- A natural inclination to liberty
- The city of New York will, in all human probability, very soon be the scene of a bloody conflict
- So celestial an article
- Cannons muskets drums
- White freedom
- I am your son! I am a warrior!
- Numberless meteors gleaming through the atmosphere
- The cause of humanity
- Rough hewer
- Glowing with zeal for the general happiness and improvement of mankind
- Which nothing else can equal