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It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult selections, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic issues bitterly fought. Now comes an excellent family portrait of the North american Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, amazing in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Jump in the Deep, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first rumblings of colonial protest to the volcanic election of 1800. Ferling's swift-moving narrative teems with interesting details. We see Benjamin Franklin trying to decide if his commitment was to Great Britain or even to America, and we meet George Washington when he was a shrewd planter-businessman who discovered personal economic benefits to American independence. We face those who supported the warfare against Great Britain in 1776, but opposed independence since it was a "leap at night." Following a war, we notice discussion in the North of secession from america. The writer offers a gripping account of the very most dramatic events of our own history, showing precisely how strongly fought were the struggle for independence, the adoption of the Constitution, and the later battle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. Yet, without slowing the move of incidents, he in addition has produced a landmark study of control and ideas. Here is all the erratic brilliance of Hamilton and Jefferson fighting to condition the new country, and here too is the enthusiasm and politics shrewdness of revolutionaries, such as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, and their Loyalist counterparts, Joseph Galloway and Thomas Hutchinson. Here as well are activists who are not so popular today, men like Abraham Yates, who battled for democratic change, and Theodore Sedgwick, who fought to preserve the politics and interpersonal system of the colonial former. Ferling demonstrates throughout this era the epic politics fights often resembled today's politics and the politicians - the founders - played a politics hardball attendant with enmities, selfish motivations, and bitterness. The politics stakes, this audiobook demonstrates, were incredible: first to secure independence, then to look for the interpretation of the North american Trend. John Ferling shows himself to be an insightful historian of our own Trend, and an unusually skillful writer. A Jump in the Deep is his masterpiece, work that provokes, enlightens, and entertains completely measure.
