Noble Undertaking

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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, most recently Boston and the Dawn of American Independence. He and his wife, Carol Damioli, live in Toronto, Canada.

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The story of the Continental Congress from 1778--just after it secured an alliance with France--to 1794, when the War of Independence ended. Letters and documents reveal how the new nation's improvisational government struggled to hold the union and the alliance together and avert financial ruin amidst war, treachery, and troop mutinies.