Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 280
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-4930-4461-0 • Hardback • July 2021 • $26.95 • (£20.99)
978-1-4930-4462-7 • eBook • July 2021 • $25.50 • (£19.99)
Samuel A. Forman is a historian and Harvard University faculty member. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in American history. Throughout his successful careers as physician, military officer, and businessman, he has published and lectured on historical topics that inform current issues. His definitive American Founder’s biography, Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty, won the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book of the Year award. He was inducted into the Society of the Cincinnati as an honorary life member on the basis of his historical writings
“This is an important American origin saga and Samuel Forman is the right person to tell it.” Nathaniel Philbrick, New York Times best-selling author—
Advance praise for Ill-Fated Frontier
“This excellent and highly original book is a major contribution to American history. It enlarges our understanding of slavery and the westward movement by the breadth of its research and the depth of its understanding. Readers will be surprised by the scale of slavery in northeastern states before the Revolution, by the magnitude of the westward migration, and by the experience of many Americans in bondage and freedom. It also enlarges our understanding of the values of a free society.” —David Hackett Fischer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Washington’s Crossing, Liberty and Freedom, Albion's Seed, Champlain's Dream, Paul Revere's Ride, and many others
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