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The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic activities and neglected writings influenced an entire era, from Paine to Madison. ON, MAY 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the brand new firebrand, was poised for strike. With only two boatloads of his scraggly group of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the others of his Green Pile boys to arrive. But with the defensive darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he could hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, is definitely defined by his daring, predawn strike on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now issues our conventional understanding of this essentially unexamined Founding Father. Widening the range of his inquiry beyond the brand new War, Randall traces Allen's start back again to his modest roots in Connecticut, where he was created in 1738. Generally self-educated, growing from a comparatively impoverished record, Allen exhibited his deeply rebellious mother nature early on through his fascination to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state.
