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  • Jefferson and Hamilton

    The Rivalry That Forged a Nation

    by John Ferling ...
    For readers of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, the spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America.The decade of the 1790s has been called the "age of passion." Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic-each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Independence

    The Struggle to Set America Free

    by John Ferling ...
    This portrait of the birth of the United States is "mesmerizing. Masterful. History written with the gravitational pull of a good novel" (Dan Rather).No event in American history was more pivotal—or more furiously contested—than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The First of Men

    A Life of George Washington

    by John E. Ferling ...
    Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. Here is a riveting account that captures Washington in all his complexity, recounting not only Washington's familiar sterling qualities--courage, industry, ability to make difficult ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Baseball As It Was

    Building Champions Before Free Agency Changed Everything

    by John Ferling ...
    Historian John Ferling delves into baseball in the fascinating dozen years following World War II, when baseball ruled as the national pastime, and the names of the game' s principal stars were known even by those who weren' t fans of the sport. Major league baseball integration in 1947 also ushered in a pivotal transition, and within a decade only one team did not have a Black player on its ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Almost a Miracle:The American Victory in the War of Independence

    The American Victory in the War of Independence

    by John Ferling ...
    In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Adams vs. Jefferson

    The Tumultuous Election of 1800

    by John Ferling ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ascent of George Washington

    The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

    by John Ferling ...
    Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling shows in this revealing and provocative new book. As leader of the Continental Army, Washington's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Leap in the Dark

    The Struggle to Create the American Republic

    by John Ferling ...
    It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Leap in the Dark

    The Struggle to Create the American Republic

    by John Ferling ...
    It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Almost A Miracle

    The American Victory in the War of Independence

    by John Ferling ...
    In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • John Adams

    A Life

    by John Ferling ...
    John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Shots Heard Round the World

    America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War

    by John Ferling ...
    Narrated by Jason Keller ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 13 min

    Bloomsbury presents Shots Heard Round the World by John Ferling, read by Jason Keller.From acclaimed historian John Ferling, a major, global reappraisal of the Revolutionary War on its 250th Anniversary.In April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of Yankees awaited them. Despite an order to disperse, shots rang out. Militiamen were killed. The British continued ... Read more

    $27.00 CAD

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