
1814
America Forged by Fire
Willard Sterne Randall(Author)
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-87140-341-4 (ISBN)
Description
Few people today realize that the United States's sovereignty was not assured until 1814, when England acknowledged it with the Treaty of Ghent. In fact, earlier that same year, the prospects for America couldn't have looked bleaker: a ruined economy, a feeble army, and serious talk of secession by the New England states all threatened its existence. By years end, however, the young nation was at peace, poised for expansion to the west, never to go to war against Britain again. How did this remarkable transformation happen? Drawing from rarely used source material, award-winning historian Willard Sterne Randall brilliantly re-creates the dramatic chain of events that prevented the nation from falling into British hands. From Dolley Madison with a telescope on the roof of the White House to Francis Scott Key penning the national anthem on an envelope, Randall's work firmly establishes 1814 as a seminal year that should be celebrated alongside 1776 in our history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Illustrations
8 pages of illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-87140-341-4 (9780871403414)
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Willard Sterne Randall is the author of Ethan Allen: His Life and Times and Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Randall is a professor of history at Champlain College and lives in Burlington, Vermont.