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Revolutionaries / by Furst, Joshua,1971-author.(CARDINAL)670003;
In his second novel, the acclaimed author of The Sabotage Café leads us on a long, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond, as seen through the eyes of the revolution's poster child. Fred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the famous(or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture, and in middle age he hates being reminded of it. But neither can he ignore any longer his psychedelically bizarre childhood. From infancy, for instance, when his parents named him Freedom, he was held up as a model for the new consciousness, not only by family and friends but also by everyone in the burgeoning movement led by his father, who happily exploited having his wife and his toddling, then walking and talking, and finally observant son in tow. Thanks to Fred, this charismatic, brilliant, volatile ringmaster is as captivating in these pages as he was to his devoted disciples back then. We watch Lenny organize hippies and intellectuals, stage magnificent stunts, and gradually lose his magnetic confidence and leading role as the sixties start slipping away. He demands loyalty but gives none back in return, a man who preaches love but treats his own intimates with almost reflexive cruelty. And Fred remembers all of it--the chaos, the spite, the affection. A kaleidoscopic saga, this novel is at once a profound allegory for America--where we've been and where we're going--and a deeply personal and profound portrait of a father and son who define our times.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Nineteen sixties; Counterculture; Middle-aged men; Fathers and sons; Hippies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Revolutionaries / by Thomas, Paul.(CARDINAL)716300;
Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Revolutionaries; Political activists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Revolutionary / by Myers, Alex.(CARDINAL)403375;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Gannett, Deborah Sampson, 1760-1827; Women soldiers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Revolutionary / by Myers, Alex.(CARDINAL)403375;
Presents a fictionalized account of Deborah Sampson Gannett, who defied the rigid societal and social norms of her times to disguise herself as a man, join the Continental Army, and fight against the British during the American Revolution.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Gannett, Deborah Sampson, 1760-1827; Women soldiers;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Revolutionaries : a new history of the invention of America / by Rakove, Jack N.,1947-(CARDINAL)139010;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-464) and index.Prologue: the world beyond Worcester -- Part I: The crisis -- Advocates for the cause -- The revolt of the moderates -- The character of a general -- Part II: Challenges -- The first constitution makers -- Vain liberators -- The diplomats -- Part III: Legacies -- The optimist abroad -- The greatest lawgiver of modernity -- The state builder.In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers--how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their purpose. In Revolutionaries, we see the founders before they were fully formed leaders, as individuals whose lives were radically altered by the explosive events of the mid-1770s. --from publisher description
Subjects: Revolutionaries; Statesmen;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 18
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The revolutionaries / by Time-Life Books.(CARDINAL)137698;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Illustrated works.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Revolutionary : George Washington at war / by O'Connell, Robert L.,author.(CARDINAL)771741;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-341) and index.The gentrification of George -- Living large -- Rage militaire -- Amateur hour -- Out in the cold -- Dangerland -- The long goodbye.How did George Washington become an American icon? Robert L. O'Connell, the New York Times bestselling author of "Fierce Patriot" and "The Ghosts of Cannae," introduces us to Washington before he was Washington: a young soldier champing at the bit for a commission in the British army, frustrated by his position as a minor Virginia aristocrat. Fueled by ego, Washington led a disastrous expedition in the Seven Years' War, but then the commander grew up. We witness George Washington take up politics and join Virginia's colonial governing body, the House of Burgesses, where he became ever more attuned to the injustices of life under the British Empire and the paranoid, revolutionary atmosphere of the colonies. When war seemed inevitable, he was the right man-the only man-to lead the nascent American army. We would not be here without George Washington, and O'Connell proves that Washington the general was at least as significant to the founding of the United States as Washington the president. He emerges here as cunning and manipulative, a subtle puppeteer among intimates, and a master cajoler-but all in the cause of rectitude and moderation. Washington became the embodiment of the Revolution itself. He draped himself over the revolutionary process and tamped down its fires. As O'Connell writes, the war was decisive because Washington managed to stop a cycle of violence with the force of personality and personal restraint. In his trademark conversational, witty style, Robert L. O'Connell has written a compelling reexamination of General Washington and his revolutionary world. He cuts through the enigma surrounding Washington to show how the general made all the difference and became a new archetype of revolutionary leader in the process. Revolutionary is a masterful character study of America's founding conflict filled with lessons about conspiracy, resistance, and leadership that resonate today.
Subjects: Biographies.; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Washington, George, 1732-1799; United States. Continental Army; Generals;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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Revolutionary war by Lukens, Rita Gay.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Revolutionary path. by Nkrumah, Kwame,1909-1972.(CARDINAL)142967;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Revolutionary Afghanistan / by Male, Beverley.(CARDINAL)160740;
Bibliography: pages 216-220.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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