Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American heroes

Oclc number

286488953

Responsibility statement

Edmund S. Morgan

Sub title

profiles of men and women who shaped early America

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

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