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Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor - The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776 (Paperback)
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Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor - The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776 (Paperback)
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In 1768, Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the
empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed
at the symbol of America's connection with England. Eight years
later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the Declaration
of Independence, severing America forever from its mother country.
Rush was not alone in his radical decision,many of those casting
their votes in favour of independence did so with a combination of
fear, reluctance, and even sadness. In Our Lives, Our Fortunes and
Our Sacred Honor , acclaimed historian Richard R. Beeman examines
the grueling twenty-two-month period between the meeting of the
Continental Congress on September 5, 1774 and the audacious
decision for independence in July of 1776. As late as 1774,
American independence was hardly inevitable,indeed, most Americans
found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the
thirteen colonies gathered in September, they were, in the words of
John Adams, a gathering of strangers." Yet over the next two years,
military, political, and diplomatic events catalyzed a change of
unprecedented magnitude: the colonists' rejection of their British
identities in favour of American ones. In arresting detail, Beeman
brings to life a cast of characters, including the relentless and
passionate John Adams, Adams' much-misunderstood foil John
Dickinson, the fiery political activist Samuel Adams, and the
relative political neophyte Thomas Jefferson, and with profound
insight reveals their path from subjects of England to citizens of
a new nation. A vibrant narrative, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our
Sacred Honor tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the
Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to
dedicate themselves to the forging of American independence.
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