Synopsis
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison.
About Willard Sterne Randall
See more books from this AuthorDetermined to see Vermont become part of New England, where he owned land, Allen and his militia waged a five-year campaign of intimidation to drive away New York settlers.
Apr 18 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesAllen's saga was founded on a giant real estate swindleâthe royal governors of New Hampshire and New York sold the territory of modern-day Vermont twice, to rival cliques of developersâthat took on insurrectionary dimensions as he led his Green Mountain Boys militia against absentee landlords...
Mar 14 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesRobert K. Landers reviews "Ethan Allen: His Life and Times" by Willard Sterne
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The Green Mountain Boys' leader was a rash commander and the author of a popular prisoner-of-war memoir.
Aug 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesA spirited man, Allen was, like other founding fathers, not averse to profiting from land speculation and accumulating wealth in ways that allied him as much with the old world as the new.
Jun 28 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesWhether "Ethan Allen: His Life and Times" will change the Allen who is introduced to Vermont schoolchildren remains to be seen, but Willard Sterne Randall — a Champlain College professor and biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Benedict Arnold — takes great pains to paint a more nuanced, multidimen...
Sep 04 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesAllen, a shrewd land speculator himself, also seeking to pocket some spoils, played the game to his advantage when he could, though always under the pretext of supporting the settlers claiming that the land had been fairly purchased from New Hampshire.
Sep 20 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and Times“Founding Fathers” brings to mind that coterie of bewigged politicians, jurists and diplomats who “shaped our destiny,” as we’ve been told since kindergarten.
Sep 02 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesIn the years spanning the Revolutionary War and the birth of a new nation, Ethan Allen fought for local rights, and local leaders.
Oct 05 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesJoseph Allen and his wife Mary Baker Allen were the parents of 8 children, all of who survived to become adults, which Randall mentions was unusual at the time.
Sep 04 2011 | Read Full Review of Ethan Allen: His Life and TimesRemembered by history as the Patriot hero who captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British, Ethan Allen was, in fact, a great deal more.
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