Kostya Kennedy: The Ride
The Ride
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- Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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- Oxford University Press, USA, 03/2025
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781250341372
- Umfang: 336 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 235 x 155 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 25.3.2025
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Timed for the 250th anniversary of one of America's most famous founding events: Paul Revere's legendary ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the myth that every American learns in school>Revere was not the only rider that night, and indeed, he had completed at least 18 previous rides throughout New England, disseminating intelligence about British movements. But this ride was like no other, and its consequences in the months and years to come--as the American Revolution morphed from isolated skirmishes to a full-fledged war--became one of our founding legends.
In The Ride, Kostya Kennedy presents a dramatic new narrative of the events of April 18 and 19, 1775, informed by fresh primary and secondary source research into archives, family letters and diaries, contemporary accounts, and more. Kennedy reveals Revere's ride to be more complex than it is usually portrayed--a coordinated series of rides by numerous men, near-disaster, capture by British forces, and finally success. While Revere was central to the ride and its plotting, Kennedy reveals the other men (and, perhaps, a woman with information about the movement of British forces) who helped to set in motion the events that would lead to America's independence.
Thrillingly written in a dramatic, unstoppable narrative, The Ride re-tells an essential American story for a new generation of readers.