Ford Evening Book Talk: Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
Hear from Princeton University professor Michael A. Blaakman, author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic.
Dr. Blaakman investigates the extraordinary wave of land speculation that swept the United States during its first quarter-century, stretching across millions of acres from Maine to the Mississippi. A story of ambition, corruption, capitalism, and statecraft, the book uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate mania and explores its role in the American founding.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
Hear from Distinguished Professor David Waldstreicher, author of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journey Through American Slavery and Independence.
Dr. Waldstreicher's new book is the most deeply researched biography of the poet. This is a paradigm-shattering account of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: The Tory's Wife
Hear from George Mason University Professor Cynthia A. Kierner, author of The Tory's Wife: A Woman and her Family in Revolutionary America.
Dr. Kierner's new book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. After the war, she was an abandoned wife on the verge of homelessness. But in a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature, she boldly fought to reclaim her family's property and to assert her own political rights.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: Unfriendly to Liberty
Hear from historian Christopher F. Minty, author of Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City.
Minty's new book explores the origins of loyalism in New York City between 1768 and 1776, and revises our understanding of the coming of the American Revolution.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: How the Best Did It, Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
Hear from historian Talmage Boston, author of How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from our Top Presidents.
Talmage Boston's new book is an accessible and insightful explanation of how the most important leadership traits from America’s eight greatest presidents can be implemented by today’s leaders. It is a discerning examination of what can be learned from some of our most effective leaders who have held—and wielded—ultimate power at the highest level.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: Revolutionary Things
Hear from University of Miami professor Ashli White, author of Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
Dr. White's new book examines how objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals. She explores the power of material things and visual images to express the fervor and fear of the revolutionary era.
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