Noble Undertaking

Auteur

Brian Deming was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and has a master's degree in American history from Northwestern University. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Michigan and Indiana and as an editor at various publications in the United States, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines. He also taught American history at the University of New York in Prague. He has written four books. The most recent was "Boston and the Dawn of American Independence." He is retired. He and his wife, Carol Damioli, live in Toronto, Canada.

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The story of the Continental Congress from 1774, before the United States became a nation, to 1778, when, as a new nation fighting for independence, it secured an ally: France. Letters and documents reveal aggravations and triumphs of frazzled delegates to the Continental Congress as it evolved into an improvisational national government.