The First American King
Author : George Gordon Hastings
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1905
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The first American King
Author : George Gordon Hastings
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Step into History with 'The First American King' by George Gordon Hastings Embark on a captivating journey through the annals of American history with George Gordon Hastings' gripping novel, 'The First American King.' Prepare to be transported back in time to a tumultuous era filled with political intrigue, ambition, and the quest for power. Experience the Drama and Intrigue of Early American Politics In 'The First American King,' Hastings masterfully weaves a narrative that brings to life the dynamic characters and pivotal events that shaped the birth of a nation. Follow the rise of a charismatic leader as he navigates the treacherous waters of colonial politics, forging alliances, and confronting adversaries in his quest for sovereignty. With meticulous attention to historical detail and a keen eye for drama, Hastings paints a vivid portrait of a nation on the brink of revolution, capturing the spirit of defiance and determination that defined the American Revolutionary War. From the halls of power in Philadelphia to the battlefields of Lexington and Concord, the novel immerses readers in the drama and excitement of the Revolutionary era. Discover the Untold Story of America's First Monarch 'The First American King' offers readers a fresh perspective on a pivotal moment in American history, exploring the complex motivations and conflicting loyalties that drove the men and women who shaped the destiny of a nation. Through the eyes of its compelling characters, the novel illuminates the struggles and sacrifices of those who dared to challenge the established order and forge a new path forward. More than just a work of fiction, 'The First American King' is a thought-provoking exploration of power, ambition, and the enduring quest for freedom. As readers follow the fortunes of its protagonists, they'll find themselves drawn into a world of intrigue, betrayal, and ultimate triumph, rooting for their favorite characters every step of the way. Why 'The First American King' Is a Must-Read for History Buffs: Rich Historical Detail: Immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, and struggles of Revolutionary America, as Hastings brings the past to life with vivid prose and meticulous research. Compelling Characters: From charismatic leaders to ordinary citizens caught up in extraordinary events, 'The First American King' features a diverse cast of characters whose stories will resonate long after the final page is turned. Epic Scope: Spanning continents and decades, 'The First American King' offers readers a sweeping saga of love, war, and the quest for independence, making it an engrossing read for fans of historical fiction. Relevant Themes: Despite being set in the past, 'The First American King' grapples with themes that remain relevant today, including the nature of leadership, the meaning of freedom, and the enduring power of the human spirit.Don't miss your chance to experience the drama and excitement of 'The First American King' by George Gordon Hastings. Pick up your copy today and embark on an unforgettable journey through the birth of a nation!
The Last King of America
Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984879278
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.
American King
Author : Sierra Simone
Publisher : Sierra Simone
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1732172226
Book Description
They say that every tragic hero has a fatal flaw, a secret sin, a tiny stitch sewn into his future since birth. And here I am. My sins are no longer secret. My flaws have never been more fatal. And I’ve never been closer to tragedy than I am now. I am a man who loves, a man whose love demands much in return. I am a king, a king who was foolish enough to build a kingdom on the bones of the past. I am a husband and a lover and a soldier and a father and a president. And I will survive this. Long live the king.
The King's Three Faces
Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807830659
Book Description
King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Tories
Author : Thomas B. Allen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0062010808
Book Description
An “evocatively written examination” of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution (American Spectator). The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, on the village green, and even in church. In this outstanding and vital history, Allen tells the complete story of the Tories, tracing their lives and experiences throughout the revolutionary period. Based on documents in archives from Nova Scotia to London, Tories adds a fresh perspective to our knowledge of the Revolution and sheds an important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed when they remained faithful to their mother country.
The Man Who Would Be King
Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466803797
Book Description
The untold story of the nineteenth-century American Quaker who tried to build a kingdom in Afghanistan: “A thrilling real-life yarn.” —Booklist In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs, spiritual and military heir to Alexander the Great. The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, has never been told before, yet the life and writings of this extraordinary man echo down the centuries. This “riveting, scrupulously researched” book reveals the full history behind the renowned Rudyard Kipling short story and John Huston’s film classic (The New York Times Book Review). “One of the most remarkable discoveries in the history of biography.” —The New York Review of Books “Macintyre recounts Harlan’s travels with dispatch, and draws on unpublished journals to let his subject’s voice seep through.” —The New Yorker “Here is a writer who seems as taken as I am with crackpottery, delusion, grandiosity, chicanery, and impersonation, but who manages to write about it all with amused restraint, without, that is, the air of the ogler.” —The Boston Globe “Macintyre gives readers both Harlan’s story and a thought-provoking perspective on the history of superpower intervention in Afghanistan . . . Harlan’s story alone is fascinating, but its resonance with modern-day struggles—Harlan urging the British to try ‘fiscal diplomacy’ (i.e., gold) instead of ‘invading and subjugating an unoffending people’—makes it compelling.” —Publishers Weekly
The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down
Author : R. Albert Mohler
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0718099176
Book Description
“Our Father, who art in heaven….” The opening words of the Lord’s Prayer have become so familiar that we often speak them without a thought, sometimes without any awareness that we are speaking at all. But to the disciples who first heard these words from Jesus, the prayer was a thunderbolt, a radical new way to pray that changed them and the course of history. Far from a safe series of comforting words, the Lord’s Prayer makes extraordinary claims, topples every earthly power, and announces God’s reign over all things in heaven and on earth. In this groundbreaking new book, R. Albert Mohler Jr. recaptures the urgency and transformational nature of the prayer, revealing once again its remarkable, world-upending power. Step by step, phrase by phrase, The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down explains what these words mean and how we are to pray them. The Lord’s Prayer is the most powerful prayer in the Bible, taught by Jesus to those closest to him. We desperately need to relearn its power and practice. The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down shows us how.
At Canaan's Edge
Author : Taylor Branch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1915 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2007-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416558713
Book Description
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's heroic place in the nation's history. The final volume of Taylor Branch's monumental, much honored, and definitive history of the Civil Rights Movement (America in the King Years), At Canaan's Edge covers the final years of King's struggle to hold his non-violent movement together in the face of factionalism within the Movement, hostility and harassment of the Johnson Administration, the country torn apart by Vietnam, and his own attempt (and failure) to take the Freedom Movement north. At Canaan's Edge traces a seminal era in our defining national story, freedom. The narrative resumes in Selma, crucible of the voting rights struggle for black people across the South. The time is early 1965, when the modern Civil Rights Movement enters its second decade since the Supreme Court's Brown decision declared segregation by race a violation of the Constitution. From Selma, King's non-violent Movement is under threat from competing forces inside and outside. Branch chronicles the dramatic voting rights drives in Mississippi and Alabama, Meredith's murder, the challenge to King from the Johnson Administration and the FBI and other enemies. When King tries to bring his Movement north (to Chicago), he falters. Finally we reach Memphis, the garbage strike, King's assassination. Branch's magnificent trilogy makes clear why the Civil Rights Movement, and indeed King's leadership, are among the nation's enduring achievements.
George III
Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141991467
Book Description
The Times Book of the Year *Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2022* *Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars' Distinguished Book Award, 2021* *Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year, 2022* *Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, 2021* Andrew Roberts, one of Britain's premier historians, overturns the received wisdom on George III George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of England's most disastrous kings' (J.H. Plumb, twentieth century) and as the pompous monarch of the musical Hamilton (twenty-first century). Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. He was a devoted husband and family man, a great patron of the arts and sciences, keen to advance Britain's agricultural capacity ('Farmer George') and determined that her horizons should be global. He could be stubborn and self-righteous, but he was also brave, brushing aside numerous assassination attempts, galvanising his ministers and generals at moments of crisis and stoical in the face of his descent - five times during his life - into a horrifying loss of mind. The book gives a detailed, revisionist account of the American Revolutionary War, persuasively taking apart a significant proportion of the Declaration of Independence, which Roberts shows to be largely Jeffersonian propaganda. In a later war, he describes how George's support for William Pitt was crucial in the battle against Napoleon. And he makes a convincing, modern diagnosis of George's terrible malady, very different to the widely accepted medical view and to popular portrayals. Roberts writes, 'the people who knew George III best loved him the most', and that far from being a tyrant or incompetent, George III was one of our most admirable monarchs. The diarist Fanny Burney, who spent four years at his court and saw him often, wrote 'A noble sovereign this is, and when justice is done to him, he will be as such acknowledged'. In presenting this fresh view of Britain's most misunderstood monarch, George III shows one of Britain's premier historians at his sparkling best.
