TY - BOOK
T1 - The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
AU - Lockhart, Paul D.
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - Drawing upon new research and scholarship, historian Paul Lockhart, author of the critically acclaimed Revolutionary War biography The Drillmaster of Valley Forge , offers a penetrating reassessment of the first major engagement of the American Revolution. In the tradition of David McCullough’s 1 776 , Lockhart illuminates the Battle of Bunker Hill as a crucial event in the creation of an American identity, dexterously interweaving the story of this pivotal pitched battle with two other momentous narratives: the creation of America’s first army, and the rise of the man who led it, George Washington.
AB - Drawing upon new research and scholarship, historian Paul Lockhart, author of the critically acclaimed Revolutionary War biography The Drillmaster of Valley Forge , offers a penetrating reassessment of the first major engagement of the American Revolution. In the tradition of David McCullough’s 1 776 , Lockhart illuminates the Battle of Bunker Hill as a crucial event in the creation of an American identity, dexterously interweaving the story of this pivotal pitched battle with two other momentous narratives: the creation of America’s first army, and the rise of the man who led it, George Washington.
KW - Battle of Bunker Hill
KW - Continental Army
KW - George Washington--1732-1799
UR - https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/books/109
M3 - Book
BT - The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
ER -