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Hardcover. Pub Date: 09 2011 Pages: 617 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. While Ethan Allen embodied the virtues and vices of the America's Founding Fathers more colorfully than any of his more venerated and aristocratic the Counterparts he is often DEFINED BY a single night in 1775. when he led a daring attack on Fort Ticonderoga. However. as the man who almost singlehandedly ought the state of Vermont into the Union. Allen was an enigmatic product of the American frontier. blessed with an extraordinary intellect and a propensity for action. Unlocking a trove of new source material. Willard Sterne Randall gives a comprehensive portrait of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. He masterfully evokes the upward struggle from childhood poverty to command of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution. This is the seminal biography of a man whose determinati...
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This is the powerful story about an essential and little-understood figure in American history. Willard Randall writes with grace and insight, and Ethan Allen is an engaging biography. --Jon Meacham, author of American Lion"
Starred Review. The definitive biography of the frontier hero and founder of Vermont....Authoritative, vivid.... Colorful, well-written and nuanced.
This is the first biography of Ethan Allen in half a century, and the only one to render him a psychologically complicated, fully flawed hero of the American Revolution.--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx
Willard Sterne Randall has few equals as a writer. A careful and meticulous historian, and an esteemed biographer, Randall has marshaled his many talents to produce the definite biography of Ethan Allen, one of the most fascinating figures in the founding of the American nation.... a must read.--John Ferling, author of Independence
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Starred Review. The definitive biography of the frontier hero and founder of Vermont....Authoritative, vivid.... Colorful, well-written and nuanced.
This is the first biography of Ethan Allen in half a century, and the only one to render him a psychologically complicated, fully flawed hero of the American Revolution.--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx
Willard Sterne Randall has few equals as a writer. A careful and meticulous historian, and an esteemed biographer, Randall has marshaled his many talents to produce the definite biography of Ethan Allen, one of the most fascinating figures in the founding of the American nation.... a must read.--John Ferling, author of Independence
Willard Sterne Randall is the author of Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor and Thomas Jefferson: A Life. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Randall is a professor of history at Champlain College.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0393076652
- ISBN 13 9780393076653
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