Selasa, 06 Juni 2017

American History Book Review: Through the Perilous Fight

Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation by Steve Vogel, Random House The “dawn’s early light” on September 14, 1814, showed an exultant Francis Scott Key that the “flag was still there” at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry. In the darkness before that dawn, Steve Vogel writes in his compelling account of the battle …

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