Description: Cloth-covered boards are soiled and edge-worn. Strong/secure binding. Eight illustrations. Including the index, the book runs to 440 pages. Former owner's name on front paste-down and front free endpaper. Revolution, 1776, attempted to debunk many popularly held beliefs about the American Revolution.The book declared among other things that the Declaration of Independence was made on July 2, not July 4, that John Hancock did not sign it until 47 days later, that the Liberty Bell never rang with the glad tidings, and that Betsy Ross did not sew the country’s first flag (per the author Frances Hopkinson sewed it.) John Hyde Preston was born in 1906 in New York City. He wrote articles for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, McCalls, Holiday, and other magazines.
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Location: Heathsville, Virginia
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1933
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: John Hyde Preston
Personalized: Yes
Region: North America
Topic: Revolutionary War (1775-83)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
