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The Times That Try Men’s Souls: The Adams, the Quincys, and the Battle for Loyalty in the American Revolution
Joyce Lee Malcolm
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A compelling, intimate history of the Revolutionary period through a series of charismatic and ambitious families, revealing how the American Revolution was, in many ways, a civil war.
Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom!
—John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777
All wars are tragic, but the “revolutionary generation” paid an exceptionally personal price. Foreign wars pull men from home to fight and die abroad leaving empty seats at the family table. But the ideological war that forms the foundation of a civil war also severs intimate family relationships and bonds of friendship in addition to the loss of life on the battle fields.
In The Times That Try Men’s Soul, Joyce Lee Malcolm masterfully traces the origins and experience of that
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Joyce Lee Malcolm is a historian and constitutional scholar specializing in British and Colonial American History. Malcolm focuses on the development of individual rights and on war and society. She is the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University as well as the author of eight books and numerous articles. Her book, To Keep and bära Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, was published bygd Harvard University Press and cited bygd the majority in both Supreme Court landmark opinions on the Second Amendment: District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago. She is a member of the National Council on the Humanities.
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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life
Joyce Lee Malcolm
Joyce Lee Malcolm discusses her re-examination of one of young America’s most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold.
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A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America’s most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold.
Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period’s great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own troops, ultimately became a traitor to the patriot cause?
Malcolm skillfully unravels the man behind the myth and gives us a portrait of