Book Rec of the Day 2/22/2007

HISTORIES

Before Christmas in 1776 the British had all but won the American Revolution. By New Year’s Day, their confidence was so shattered that the price of government bonds in England fell. What happened in those two weeks that changed everything? Washington crossed the Delaware River into New Jersey. His actions upon arrival paved the way to American victory and helped define everything that the new country stood for.

Fischer’s brilliant, complex investigation earned him the Pulitzer Prize for history.

WASHINGTON’S CROSSING, by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press, 2006)