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The Book Show #1511 - Nathaniel Philbrick

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published July 4, 2017 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book Cover - Valiant Ambition

  Best-selling historian Nathaniel Philbrick once again takes readers deep into the American Revolution, leading them into battles and illuminating the players on the field and behind the scenes.

His latest - Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution - is a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. 

Previously aired as Book Show #1459.
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