American heroes : profiles of men and women who shaped early America / Edmund S. Morgan.

Reexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, exe...

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Main Author: Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916-2013
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009], ©2009.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Biography.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography.
United States > History > 1783-1815 > Biography.
Heroes > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xvi, 278 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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Summary:
Reexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, executed for practicing witchcraft.
Note:Includes index.
Call Number:E187.5 .M67 2009
ISBN:9780393070101 (hardcover)
0393070107 (hardcover)