American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America (Hardcover) by Professor Edmund S Morgan

from dougwood57

In my estimation, Edmund Morgan is one of the finest American historians of his or any other generation and I have read a number of his earlier books. Morgan is now 93 years old, so I was surprised to see a new book from him on the shelves. And of course, it turns out that the book is a collectio...

from dougwood57

In my estimation, Edmund Morgan is one of the finest American historians of his or any other generation and I have read a number of his earlier books. Morgan is now 93 years old, so I was surprised to see a new book from him on the shelves. And of course, it turns out that the book is a collectio...

from greentea

Could have been great but didn't really cover 'heros'. It was a bunch of his lectures strung together

from msaucier818

As many other reviewers have written, the title and cover of this book do not accurately depict what this collection of essays are about. The essays generally cover the colonial period in New England, with a few sprinkled in about Washington and Franklin late in the book. The idea that the centra...

from HistReader

This was my first Edmund Morgan book and I enjoyed it thoroughly. He is clearly an academic, his writing is somewhat weighty and took me a little longer to read than other history books. American Heroes is a collection of essays which span about six decades of authorship; there are several themes...