"The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution" Topic
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Tango01  | 27 Jun 2018 11:45 a.m. PST |
"In The First Salute, one of America's consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating how the aid to the American colonies of both these nations made the triumph of independence possible. She sheds new light on the key role played by the contending navies, paints a magnificent portrait of George Washington, and recounts in riveting detail the decisive campaign of the war at Yorktown. By turns lyrical and gripping,The First Salute is an exhilarating account of the birth of a nation…."
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 Pictors Studio  | 27 Jun 2018 12:50 p.m. PST |
Odd review for a book so old it may pre-date the Declaration of Independence. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 27 Jun 2018 2:18 p.m. PST |
I've read that one!  |
| GonerGonerGoner | 28 Jun 2018 6:24 a.m. PST |
Barbara W. Tuchman died in 1989. |
| Winston Smith | 28 Jun 2018 6:31 a.m. PST |
Yes. It's a rather old book. |
| Tango01 | 28 Jun 2018 10:10 a.m. PST |
But… is good or not? (smile) Amicalement
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| Virginia Tory | 02 Jul 2018 7:51 a.m. PST |
Read it in 80s. Very tedious and seemed like an attempt to justify a role for the Netherlands they didn't have. Way overdone. |
| Winston Smith | 02 Jul 2018 8:46 a.m. PST |
She has another book, "The March of Folly", in which she tries to show how throughout history, governments often act against their own best interests. This isn't all that new, but she tries to show how this was staring them in the face all along, and that they acted knowing that.
She starts with Troy and the Horse, then goes through the Renaissance popes, George III and the American Revolution up to Vietnam.
The premise is the various "governments" knew all along that what they were doing was contrary to their interests.
It's a forced argument at best. Cassandra was not "the government". Plenty of outsiders, and a few insiders, may have been uneasy. That's not the same thing as seeing the rocks and damning the torpedoes. |
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