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Winner of the 2013 eLit Silver Award in Biography for books
published in 2012 Remembering John Hanson re-illuminates the key
Revolutionary War figure and Founding Father to whom George
Washington reported when Hanson served as the first president of
the original United States government chartered under the Articles
of Confederation. This biography is the first in over seventy years
on Hanson and, with the best documentation ever researched on him,
spells out his two nation-saving triumphs which, as Lincoln would
do later, kept the nation whole on the eve of independence and
again as it struggled to form a government, and made him the
unanimous choice by some of the greatest Americans who ever lived
to be their and their nation's first president. Remembering John
Hanson brings to light the astounding and tragic story of the
destruction of Hanson's tomb in the 1980s and the author's
rediscovery of its site in researching the book. Also covered are
current efforts to rekindle the nation's memory of Hanson and to
dispel odd Internet myths that have arisen about him in recent
years. Peter H. Michael is publisher of Underground Railroad Free
Press, the nation's top-circulation Underground Railroad news
publication, and publisher of Underground Railroad Free Press
Books. Peter Michael's other recent books are An American Family of
the Underground Railroad, Guide to Freedom: Rediscovering the
Underground Railroad, and Palace of Yawns, a 365-day Southeast Asia
journal at the tumultuous end of the Viet Nam War. Peter Michael
was educated at the University of Maryland, Berkeley and Princeton
and lives with his wife on his family's ancestral farm founded in
1768 near Adamstown, Maryland. The first comprehensive biography of
"the most forgotten major figure in American history," reading this
volume is nothing if not enriching. Michael's narrative presents .
. . a torrent of information in fine detail . . . a rich trove
about a major historical figure. / Kirkus Reviews Some of the best
information on Hanson I have ever seen. / Edward Edelen, Founder,
The John Hanson Institute This work represents the most
comprehensive and - equally important - extensively documented
exploration of the life and contributions of John Hanson. It
provides the context and critical analysis to properly elevate
Hanson to the pantheon of the fathers of our nation. / Aldan
Weinberg, Professor of Journalism and Director of the
Communications Arts Program, Hood College You contribute greatly to
our understanding of Hanson, his times, and why he became largely
forgotten. Remembering John Hanson is also clearly and engagingly
written, with excellent illustrations. / Ralph Levering, Hanson
scholar and Professor of History, Davidson College I have found
your information to confirm my arguments why Hanson was the more
significant first president of the United States. The story of John
Hanson is much greater than previous authors have given credit to.
/ John Cummings, John Hanson author
Bangkok diplomatic nightlife, Soviet spies, tranquil Buddhist
monks, Thai princesses, Khmer Rouge, cave temples, cobras, a Nobel
Prize and more fill the pages of Palace of Yawns. When a
29-year-old advisor was posted to Korea by an American foundation
to advise the Ministry of Health on management of the national
family planning program, he developed a breakthrough method
allowing governments to reduce birth rates as rapidly as possible
from fixed budgets. Based on his discovery, the United Nations
recruited him, and from Bangkok he directed a UN program to assist
Asian governments in resetting their demographic goals. Though
eight countries requested the UN to help them implement the
program, it failed to do so, instead turning out a barely read
"study" much later. Palace of Yawns recounts this failure, its
harmful growth consequences, and the amazing year which the
adventurous young advisor spent in Southeast Asia as the Viet Nam
War reached its historic climax.
Guide to Freedom: Rediscovering the Underground Railroad In One
United States County reveals Underground Railroad sites of
Frederick County, Maryland, which lies amidst a major group of
Underground Railroad routes just to the east of the Appalachians.
Frederick County, a border county in a border state during the
Civil War, directly adjoins the slave state of Virginia and the
free state of Pennsylvania. Despite the geographic centrality of
this county to Underground Railroad activity, most of its
fascinating Underground Railroad history had nearly been lost to
time. The recently rediscovered history of the Underground Railroad
in the county presents one of the very few detailed pictures of the
Underground Railroad in any border or southern state. Guide to
Freedom lists all confirmed or suspected Underground Railroad
safe-houses and routes in the county and rates each according to
the likelihood that its oral tradition or documentation is
authentic. What has emerged is a network of six confirmed routes,
more than fifty confirmed or suspected safe-houses and a number of
Underground Railroad safe-house operators and conductors. Of high
interest to readers will be the stories of freedom seekers
identified by name who passed through Frederick County including
several who were sheltered at the author's own safe-house.
The Underground Railroad was a 280-year American phenomenon which
served as the boldest and most active foil to slavery. Because the
Underground Railroad was clandestine, its safe-house operators and
conductors - black and white alike - who ushered people to freedom
had to keep their roles hidden. If caught rendering aid to freedom
seekers, they could be and were arrested, convicted of interfering
with "property rights," and sentenced. All who rendered aid risked
all they had to do so, and some lost all they had for doing so.
Because those who rendered aid could still be prosecuted long after
the Civil War and the Underground Railroad ended, most took their
noble secrets to the grave. One who didn't was the author's
great-grandfather Marion Michael who could not be prosecuted
because he was a minor when he rendered aid. Marion Michael told of
his family's work on the Underground Railroad, and his descendants
keep this family history quite alive today. An American Family of
the Underground Railroad is told by the actual safe-house
operators' descendant who owns the very farm where his ancestors
sheltered freedom seekers. Cooling Springs Farm might be the sole
remaining Underground Railroad safe-house in the nation still owned
by the same family that used it in Underground Railroad times. An
American Family of the Underground Railroad provides to general
reader and scholar alike a wealth of detail about more than fifty
Underground Railroad sites in a single county with a map of the
sites, and identifies several safe-house operators and a key
Underground Railroad conductor there. With a bibliography of over
200 sources, this book might be the most thoroughly documented work
on any singlesafe-house. An American Family of the Underground
Railroad helps reawaken the nation to its defining heritage of the
Underground Railroad.
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