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The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
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Author
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Paul Lockhart.
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Harper
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hardcover
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9.25
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6.25
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1.45
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ISBN
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9780061958861
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Pages/Publication Date
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414/2011
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Daedalus Item Code
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22329
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Description
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Was Bunker Hill the battle we've been taught to believe it was? Paul Lockhart, the author of The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, revisits old evidence and draws on new research to show that Bunker Hill was a clumsy engagement pitting one inexperienced army against another. He tells the rest of the story, too: how a mob of armed civilians became America's first army; how George Washington set aside his comfortable patrician life to take command of the Bunker Hill veterans; and how the forgotten heroes of 1775—though overshadowed by the more famous Founding Fathers—kept the notion of American liberty alive, making independence possible. "In his vigorous and thorough account, Paul Lockhart reminds us of just how much was at stake in the fiery beginning of our Republic, and of how fiercely its first real fight was contested. Perhaps most important, Lockhart offers a vivid account of the momentous alchemy that on the hills around Boston began to transform a group of disgruntled farmers and schoolteachers into a professional military force powerful and unified enough to secure our independence."—Richard Snow
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