Inventing Ethan Allen

Author : John J. Duffy
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611685540
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Ethan Allen written by John J. Duffy and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher. Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask: How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As they observe, this spectacular persona leaves little room for a more accurate assessment of Allen as a self-interested land speculator, rebellious mob leader, inexperienced militia officer, and truth-challenged man who would steer Vermont into the British Empire. Drawing extensively from the correspondence in Ethan Allen and his Kin and a wide range of historical, political, and cultural sources, Duffy and Muller analyze the factors that led to Ethan Allen's two-hundred-year-old status as the most famous figure in Vermont's past. Placing facts against myths, the authors reveal how Allen acquired and retained his iconic image, how the much-repeated legends composed after his death coincide with his life, why recollections of him are synonymous with the story of Vermont, and why some Vermonters still assign to Allen their own cherished and idealized values.

Author : John J. Duffy
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611685559
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Ethan Allen written by John J. Duffy and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher. Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask: How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As they observe, this spectacular persona leaves little room for a more accurate assessment of Allen as a self-interested land speculator, rebellious mob leader, inexperienced militia officer, and truth-challenged man who would steer Vermont into the British Empire. Drawing extensively from the correspondence in Ethan Allen and his Kin and a wide range of historical, political, and cultural sources, Duffy and Muller analyze the factors that led to Ethan Allen's two-hundred-year-old status as the most famous figure in Vermont's past. Placing facts against myths, the authors reveal how Allen acquired and retained his iconic image, how the much-repeated legends composed after his death coincide with his life, why recollections of him are synonymous with the story of Vermont, and why some Vermonters still assign to Allen their own cherished and idealized values.

Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082288
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethan Allen: His Life and Times written by Willard Sterne Randall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father. Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state. Chronicling Allen’s upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen’s life—his capture during the aborted American invasion of Canada, his philosophical works that influenced Thomas Paine, his seminal role in gaining Vermont statehood, his stirring funeral in 1789—Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth, historical folklore that people have handed down, as if Allen were Paul Bunyan. As Randall reveals, Ethan Allen, a so-called Robin Hood in the eyes of his dispossessed Green Mountain settlers, aggrandized, and unabashedly so, the holdings of his own family, a fact that is glossed over in previous accounts, embellishing his own best-selling prisoner-of-war narrative as well. He emerges not only as a public-spirited leader but as a self-interested individual, often no less rapacious than his archenemies, the New York land barons of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. As John E. Ferling comments, “Randall has stripped away the myths to provide as accurate an account of Allen’s life as will ever be written.” The keen insights that he produces shed new light, not only on this most enigmatic of Founding Fathers, but on today’s descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, whose own political disenfranchisement resonates now more than ever.

Author : Ethan Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 131 pages
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Download or read book The Narrative of Ethan Allen written by Ethan Allen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ethan Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934720526
Total Pages : 70 pages
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Download or read book The Quotable Ethan Allen written by Ethan Allen and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ethan Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565412248
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book The Best of Ethan Allen written by Ethan Allen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginia Aronson
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438143915
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethan Allen written by Virginia Aronson and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Revolutionary War hero and leader of the Green Mountain Boys.

Author : Charles Walter Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331431237
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethan Allen of Green Mountain Fame written by Charles Walter Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ethan Allen of Green Mountain Fame: A Hero of the Revolution The American Revolution called forth the latent ener gies of many individuals who, in a more peaceable state of political afi'airs, would have slumbered in obscurity and gone down to the grave unhonored and unknown. The very nature of the policy of Great Britain toward the Colonies - a policy every way tyrannical and oppressive was calculated to call into action the efiorts of every friend of liberty. It was an attempt to strip the people of their rights and manacle them with the fetters of slavery; but, thanks to the spirit which prevailed among our fathers-thanks to the patriotism which then warmed the hearts of the people - the mercenaries of a foreign power were unequal to the task of accomplishing the designs of their masters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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ISBN 13 : 9780461703832
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Author : Ethan Allen
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342544509
Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book Allen's Captivity, Being a Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen, Containing His Voyages, Travels, &c., Interspersed with Political Observations written by Ethan Allen and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.