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The spirit of 'seventy-six; the story of the American Revolution as told by participants / by Commager, Henry Steele,1902-1998.(CARDINAL)139141; Morris, Richard B.(Richard Brandon),1904-1989.(CARDINAL)138798;

Includes bibliography.Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer--the participants themselves--and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers. Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history.v. I. 1. The fierce spirit of resistance. : Mohawk Indians spill tea in Boston Harbor ; Parliament punishes the Bostonians ; Intolerable acts unite the colonies ; Boston beleaguered and saved -- 2. Congress asserts the rights of Americans : Union for resistance ; The First Congress debates the rights of Americans ; The declaration of rights -- 3. The war begins : Will the Americans fight? ; Colonel Leslie's expedition to Salem ; The midnight ride of Paul Revere ; A town called Lexington ; Concord ; Sounding the alarm ; Ticonderoga ; Virginia takes the road to revolution -- 4. Bunker's Hill : The siege of Boston ; Bunker's Hill: the American version ; Bunker's Hill: the British version -- 5. The battle for Boston : Washington is appointed to the command of the American army ; Boston under siege ; Creating an American army ; Holding the army together ; The British in Boston are frustrated and bored ; The British navy ineffectively harasses the Americans ; Boston redeemed -- 6. The Canadian campaigns : The beginning: the capture of St. Johns and Montreal ; Arnold leads an expedition to Quebec ; The fateful assaunt on Quebec ; The army in retreat ; Arnold saves the American army: the battles on Lake Champlain -- 7. "A great empire and little minds" : A great empire and little minds go ill together ; The American war divides English opinion ; Discontent in Britain ; The war of pamphlets ; The great debate ; George III hires mercenaries -- 8. The great declaration : Benjamin Rush limns some of the founding fathers ; Defiance or reconciliation ; The turn of the tide ; Independence like a torrent ; The final debate ; The great declaration -- 9. The loyalists : The loyalists argue their cause ; The ruth of civil war ; The propriety and legality of loyalist oaths ; The rising tide of fury ; Tory defiance ; Loyalists in exile ; The return of the natives -- 10. The struggle for democracy at home : All power is in the people ; Massachusetts realizes the theories of the wisest writers ; Two bills of rights ; Freedom embraces religion as well as politics ; How reconcile freedom to slavery? ; Austerity, morality and equality ; Education for a free people ; Will the revolution wipe out class distinctions? -- 11. The battle for New York : The redcoats bring war to the middle states ; The eve of battle ; The Howes' first attempt at conciliation ; The battle of Long Island begins ; Sullivan leaves the back door open ; Stirling makes a gallant stand ; The withdrawal to New York ; The futile mission of the Howes: the negotiations with members of Congress ; Awaiting the attack ; The East River crossing and the Kip's bay rout ; The British repulse at Harlem Heights ; New York in flames: the great fire of September 20 ; The martyrdom of Nathan Hale ; Awaiting Howe's next move ; The retreat to White Plains ; Howe's futile stroke at White Plains ; The fall of Fort Washington -- 12. Bagging the fox : The retreat to New Jersey ; Counterattack: the victory at Trenton ; Princeton ; Pillaging and war atrocities ; Stalemate -- 13. The Burgoyne campaign : The plan for a three-pronged attack on New York ; First round: a war of words ; The fall of Ticonderoga ; Burgoyne's first serious blunder ; The Jenny McCrea atrocity ; The rout of St. Leger ; The Hessian disaster at Bennington ; Saratoga: the first phase: Freeman's farm ; Sir Henry Clinton's relief expedition ; Saratoga: the last phase: Bemis Heights ; The surrender of Burgoyne -- 14. Howe invades Pennsylvania : Philadelphia is the objective ; Brandywine ; The fall of Philadelphia ; Germantown ; The struggle for control of the Delaware ; Valley Forge ; The "Conway cabal" ; The British abandon Philadelphia.v. II. 15. France comes in : America seeks foreign aid without entangling alliances ; France gives aid short of war ; France enters the war -- 16. England seeks reconciliation : The attempt to woo Franklin ; The Carlisle Commission ; Forlorn hopes of peace -- 17. The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states : General Prescott is captured ; Lafayette's abortive expedition to Canada ; Monmouth ; The Rhode Island campaign of 1778 ; Stony Point ; Paulus Hook ; Springfield ; Benedict Arnold fires New London -- 18. Spies, treason and mutiny : Dr. Church goes over to the enemy ; Arson in America and England ; A regius professor remains loyal to his king ; Dr. Edward Bancroft gives the history of his career as a spy ; The treason of Benedict Arnold ; The capture and execution of André ; Mutiny -- 19. The home front in the war : Munitions, supplies and impressment ; Holding the price and wages line ; Further efforts to hold the price line ; The issuance and control of the currency ; An end to depreciation: the forty-to-one formula ; The bank and the financier ; Profiteers and profiteering -- 20. Health, hospitals and medicine : Setting up a medical establishment ; The ravages of smallpox on the expedition against Canada ; The breakdown of hospital services ; Dr. Shippen and Dr. Rush try to bring order out of chaos ; The impact of the war on medicine -- 21. Prisons and escapes : Stormont rejects Franklin's plea for mercy to prisoners ; John Leach and his companions suffer in a Boston prison ; The sufferings of American prisoners in New York ; The horrors of the British prison ships ; Congress keeps the "convention" troops in America ; The sufferings of loyalist and British prisoners ; American prisoners in English gaols ; Captain Asgill is reprieved as a compliment to Louis XVI -- 22. Songs and ballads of the Revolution : Patriot ; Loyalist and British -- 23. Sea battles and naval raids : Founding the American navy ; Congress runs the navy ; Sandwich presides over the misfortunes of the British navy ; The naval war off the New England coast ; A submarine in New York waters? ; The naval war in foreign waters ; John Paul Jones ; The Trumbull and the Watt ; The protector and the Admiral Duff ; The expeditions of Captain John Barry -- 24. Privateering : Boon or bane of the revolutionary cause? ; Some privateering adventures ; Captain Conyngham strikes at Britain from French bases -- 25. American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe : The American commission is riddled with dissension ; Mission to Spain ; John Adams descends upon the Dutch -- 26. War out of Niagara : Both sides enlist Indians ; Wyoming ; The Americans strike back: the Sullivan expedition ; The Americans strike back: the Brodhead expedition ; The final campaigns along the New York borderlands -- 27. The conquest of the old Northwest : Kaskaskia and Vincennes: the first conquest ; The capture of Vincennes ; The fight for St. Louis ; Kentucky: war to the bitter end -- 28. The Redcoats carry the war to the South : The Charleston expedition -- 29. The second campaign to conquer the South : The fall of Savannah ; Advance and repulse in Georgia ; Prevost's Charleston expedition ; The Franco-American expedition to recapture Savannah ; The fall of Charleston ; The massacre at the Waxhaws ; Patriots whip Tories at Ramsour's Mill ; Pillage and civil war flame in South Carolina ; At Camden Gates's Northern Laurels turn to Southern Willows ; The patriot cause looks up: King's mountain -- 30. The turn of the tide : Partisan warfare takes its toll ; Cowpens, the patriots' best-fought battle ; The hunter becomes the hunted: Guilford Courthouse ; The partisan role in the reconquest of South Carolina ; Hobkirk's Hill, the second battle of Camden ; The fall of the British outposts ; Eutaw Springs -- 31. Virginia : General Arnold invades Virginia ; The fateful squabble between Clinton and Cornwallis ; Lafayette to the rescue -- 32. Yorktown: Washington's vindication : Washington's strategy looks to the Chesapeake ; De Grasse's naval victory ; The siege ; Cornwallis surrenders -- 33. Winning the peace : France seeks to dictate the American peace ; Britain sues for peace ; "The point of independence" ; The battle for the fisheries ; The settlement of the loyalist question ; The reception of the peace treaty -- 34. Closing scenes : In England defeat shakes the foundations of monarchy ; The alternatives of dictatorship or republican government ; Washington's parting advice to the new nation ; "Peace made, a new scene opens."

Subjects: Personal narratives.;

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Tennis confidential : today's greatest players, matches, and controversies / by Fein, Paul,1944-(CARDINAL)671218;

Subjects: Biographies.; Tennis players; Tennis;

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Mother-daughter movies : 101 films to see together / by Rogers, Rosemary.(CARDINAL)720679; Michlin, Nell Rogers.(CARDINAL)465624; Bode, Christine Ernst.(CARDINAL)465625;

Subjects: Catalogs.; Motion pictures for women; Children's films;

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Eldorado / by Sánchez Dragó, Fernando,1936-author.(CARDINAL)893207;

A town in the South of Spain in 1960 cornered between the traditionalism of the Old Regime and the cosmopolitanism of the Prodigious Decade. The characters in the book are the young people who rose up for the first time in February 1956 against the status quo established by the Civil War. The same ones who, twenty-five years later, seized the reins of democratic Spain. Fernando Sánchez Dragó is then a young, poor, and happy disciple of Hemingway, who has just separated and arrives in Torremolinos so determined to devour the world. The Costa del Sol was born then and, with it, a new lifestyle that no longer exists but whose aroma remains. There he will meet a nineteen-year-old woman who reminds him of Natalie Wood from Splendor in the Grass and will fall madly in love with her. He woos her, she lets herself be wooed and that's how they'll spend six weeks of sun, salt, pitas, whitebait, gin, romanticism, rebelliousness and southern love... But she will resist having a relationship with him due to the marital status of the one who with so much impetus requires it. For this reason, the twentysomething Dragó will lock himself up to write these pages torrentially, in just twenty-three days, with the aim of conquering her. The young man who one day was still today persecutes the author with the maxim that governs his life: "they loved each other, know it". Destruction or love. That, and much more, is Eldorado. "It's not just a love story. It is a daguerreotype, a period portrait, a photo album, a psychography of my generation, a testimony of what the world was like, of what Spain was like, of how we were, how people thought and felt, and, above all, the young people of what would soon be called, with good reason, the Prodigious Decade"-- Fernando Sánchez Dragó.Un pueblo del Sur en la España de 1960 acorralado entre el casticismo del Antiguo Régimen y el cosmopolitismo de la Década Prodigiosa. Los personajes del libro son los jóvenes que en febrero de 1956 se sublevaron por primera vez contra el statu quo implantado por la Guerra Civil. Los mismos que, veinticinco años más tarde, empuñaron las riendas de la España democrática. Fernando Sánchez Dragó es entonces un joven, pobre, feliz y discípulo de Hemingway, que acaba de separarse y llega a Torremolinos tan decidido a devorar el mundo. La Costa del Sol nacía entonces y, con ella, un nuevo estilo de vida que ya no existe pero cuyo aroma permanece. Allí conocerá a una mujer de diecinueve años que le recuerda a la Natalie Wood de Esplendor en la hierba y se enamorará perdidamente de ella. La corteja, se deja cortejar y así pasarán seis semanas de sol, sal, pitas, chanquetes, ginebra, romanticismo, rebeldía y amor sureño... Pero ella se resistirá a tener una relación con él debido al estado civil de quien con tanto ímpetu la requiere. Por ello, el veinteañero Dragó, se encerrará a escribir torrencialmente estas páginas, en sólo veintitrés días, con el objeto de conquistarla. El joven que un día fue todavía hoy persigue al autor con la máxima que rige su vida: "se querían, sabedlo". La destrucción o el amor. Eso, y mucho más, es Eldorado. "No es sólo una historia de amor. Es un daguerrotipo, un retrato de época, un álbum de fotos, una psicografía de mi generación, un testimonio de cómo era el mundo, de cómo era España, de cómo éramos, pensábamos y sentíamos las gentes y, sobre todo, los jóvenes de lo que no tardaría en llamarse, con razón, Década Prodigiosa" -- Fernando Sánchez Dragó.

Subjects: Fiction.; Young men; Man-woman relationships; Jóvenes (Varones); Relaciones hombre-mujer; Novela histórica.;

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