Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

From the origins of the English expansion under Henry VIII to the founding of the United States to the rollicking election of President Andrew Jackson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall rescues from myth or oblivion the brave, brilliant, and flawed people who made America great: women and men, native-born and immigrant; German, Latin, African, and British; as well as farmers, engineers, planters, and merchants; Protestants, Freemasons, Catholics, and Jews; and last but not least - the American scofflaws, speculators, rogues, and demagogues.