{"title":"Harlow Giles Unger","description":"\u003cp\u003eHARLOW GILES UNGER was an American author, historian, journalist, broadcaster, and educator who wrote more than twenty-six books, including biographies of Lafayette, Patrick Henry, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, and John Marshall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnger’s book \u003cem\u003eLafayette\u003c\/em\u003e won the American Revolution Round Table Book Prize and a Daughters of the American Revolution book award. He also received recognition for his three-volume \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of American Education\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of Yale University, he served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore writing books, Unger worked as a foreign correspondent for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e Overseas News Service in Paris, and later as an American political and economic affairs analyst for \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e of London. That experience across continents shaped his focus on American history and its founding figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarlow Giles Unger’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lafayette","title":"Lafayette","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this gripping biography, acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate portrait of the heroic young French soldier who, at 19, renounced a life of luxury in Paris and Versailles to fight and bleed for liberty - at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown. A major general in the Continental Army, he quickly earned the love of his troops, his fellow commanders, and his commander in chief, George Washington, who called him his \"adopted son\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnger follows Lafayette from the battlefields of North America to the palace of Versailles, where the marquis won the most stunning diplomatic victory in world history - convincing the French court to send the huge military and naval force needed to win American independence. He then returned to America to lead the remarkable guerrilla campaign in Virginia that climaxed with the British surrender at Yorktown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLafayette's triumph turned to tragedy, however, when he tried to introduce American democracy in his native land. His quest for a constitutional monarchy unwittingly set off the French Revolution and plunged Europe into more than a decade of slaughter and war. Declared an enemy of the state, Lafayette fled France only to be imprisoned for five years in an Austrian dungeon, while his wife, Adrienne, and her family festered in prison, awaiting the cruel blade of the guillotine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471468851\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471468851\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Harlow Giles Unger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40591029207227,"sku":"9780471468851","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40591029239995,"sku":"9780471394327","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780470243565_FC_mockup_v2_1623723013_16c092b1-e060-460e-a613-208caa401b95.jpg?v=1790967193"},{"product_id":"americas-second-revolution","title":"America's Second Revolution: How George Washington Defeated Patrick Henry and Saved the Nation","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration of Independence liberated one continent from domination by another, but the Constitution revolutionized the world——by entrusting citizens with rights never before in history granted to ordinary people. Far from the genteel unity implied by the Constitution’s opening words “We the people,” the struggle to create and ratify this powerful document was as difficult as the fight for independence from Britain had been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe road to independence had led straight to hell. America was ablaze in anarchy and civil strife. As civil war threatened, George Washington called for a new constitution creating a powerful new federal government to restore order. For the majority of Americans, the new Constitution drafted in Philadelphia seemed a disaster, creating a new American government with the same powers of taxation as the former British government and led by a president with powers to succeed himself indefinitely and become a monarch. Former Virginia governor Patrick Henry cried out against such a central authority that could stifle state sovereignty: “Liberty will be lost and tyranny will result.” George Washington countered, calling Henry an enemy of liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ratification process began and, over the next nine months, America warred with itself, as each state joined in what became America’s “second revolution.” Just as the first revolution had brought Americans together, the second threatened to rip the nation apart, as Washington’s Federalists battled Henry’s Antifederalists. Mobs ran riot in the streets of Philadelphia, New York, and Providence. The wealthy elite supported the new Constitution and a strong central government, while a majority of ordinary people opposed both, and populist leaders such as Henry and New York governor George Clinton geared for violent conflict between the states to preserve state sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy mid-March 1788, eight of the nine states required for ratification of the Constitution had ratified. But Virginia, the largest and the wealthiest state, stood firm with New York against union, and without them the new nation would be as fragile as the parchment on which the Constitution had been written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the fate of the country in the balance, Washington could only hope for a miracle to save the nation from all-out civil war and disunion. In\u003cem\u003e America’s Second Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger tells the gripping story of that miracle, the harrowing events that led up to it, and the men who made it possible. Rich and powerful, they displayed humor, sarcasm, fire, brilliance, ignorance, hypocrisy, warmth, anger, bigotry, and hatred. Their struggle pitted friend against friend, brother against brother, father against son. But, in the end, they helped create a new government, a new nation, and, ultimately, a new civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0470107510\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780470107515\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Harlow Giles Unger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43185548394712,"sku":"9780470107515","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780470107515_FC_mockup_v2_1660762518_58449b2c-23e1-4112-bdd7-2ec26343148d.jpg?v=1790988342"},{"product_id":"john-hancock","title":"John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot","description":"\u003cdiv\u003ePraise for Harlow Giles Unger's \u003cem\u003eNoah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man; shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans.\"-\u003cem\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Superb biography. . . . Don't miss this stirring book.\" -Florence King, \u003cem\u003eThe American Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1684422280\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781684422289\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Harlow Giles Unger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43212272140504,"sku":"9780471332091","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43212272173272,"sku":"9781684422289","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780471332091_FC_mockup_v2_1740153230_abc757cf-7655-462c-9bd9-7d1f69867250.jpg?v=1790992421"},{"product_id":"noah-webster","title":"Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn the first major biography of Noah Webster in over sixty years, author Harlow Unger creates an intriguing portrait of the United States as an energetic and confident young country, even when independence was fragile and the future unclear. Harlow Unger brilliantly restores Webster's monumental legacy as a teacher, legislator, philosopher, lawyer, editor, and one of history's most profoundly influential lexicographers. Breathtaking adventure--from the American Revolution to the War of 1812--and masterful scholarship converge in this riveting chronicle of a singularly American intellect.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471379433\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471379430\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Harlow Giles Unger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43212280103128,"sku":"9780471184553","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43212280135896,"sku":"9780471379430","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780471184553_FChigh_mockup_v2_1740150288_4a10984f-bb3e-408d-b6ca-b81bc483b2f2.jpg?v=1790993547"},{"product_id":"the-french-war-against-america","title":"The French War Against America: How a Trusted Ally Betrayed Washington and the Founding Fathers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the end of 1798, France--\"our oldest ally\"--had captured or sunk more than eight hundred American ships, and President John Adams called George Washington out of retirement to command the defense of the nation's shores against imminent French invasion. The French war against America had reached its climax. After thirty-five years of feigning friendship for America, France at last revealed her real motive for supporting the American Revolution--and it had nothing to do with liberty. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe French War Against America\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning author and historian Harlow Giles Unger shatters the myth of France as our oldest ally and reveals her as our oldest enemy. Citing hundreds of secret and not-so-secret personal and official documents and letters from French, American, and British sources, Unger lays bare a chapter of American history ignored by many historians: the long and treacherous French plot to recapture North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContrary to popular belief, the French Army came to fight in America's Revolutionary War not to save America but to conquer her. By infiltrating the Continental Army high command, French officers hoped to replace Washington and establish a French military dictatorship. By war's end, French agents had infiltrated every area of American life, developing close relationships with top American officials, working their way to the highest levels of the American military, and bribing cabinet members to obtain secret documents--all to try and turn the young nation into a French vassal state. From the beginning of the war, however, a small group of courageous Founding Fathers had remained suspicious of French motives. This action-packed history follows them--Washington, Adams, John Jay, and others--as they outwit every overt and covert French plot to destroy the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA decade after the American Revolution, French government agents tried to overthrow President Washington by provoking widespread street rioting, while French warships occupied the harbors of major cities. Again, the Founding Fathers outwitted the French. Furious at their nation's humiliation, the French Navy began sinking American ships to crush American foreign trade. John Adams ordered the construction of an American Navy that destroyed the French fleet. Undeterred, the French continued to plot to reconquer North American into the next century. Napoleon I prepared to send 20,000 troops to invade Louisiana in 1802, and his nephew Napoleon III sent 40,000 troops to conquer Mexico in 1863, with orders to march northward into the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo this day \"our oldest ally\" often seems still at war with America--metaphorically and diplomatically, if not militarily. \u003cem\u003eThe French War Against America\u003c\/em\u003e provides new perspectives on the origins of that war and explains why it may never end. An important addition to Franco-American history, it adds new insights into current diplomatic relationships. It is also an exciting, action-filled drama of remarkable human courage. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471651133\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471651130\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Harlow Giles Unger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43212297011416,"sku":"9780471651130","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780471651130_FChigh_mockup_v2_1738795156_e7a34e31-1074-4e0b-8dd1-d1c2e1e1cf63.jpg?v=1790996593"},{"product_id":"the-unexpected-george-washington","title":"The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvance Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Unexpected George Washington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a biography that unquestionably lives up to its title. Readers will discover numerous, often touching traits that they never knew about the Father of the Country. Harlow Unger has written a one-of-a-kind book that will please and fascinate everyone.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Thomas Fleming, author \u003ci\u003eWashington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's hard to imagine George Washington as playful, tender, or funny. But Harlow Unger searches to find these seldom-seen aspects of the private man, and the result is a far more complete and believable founding father.\"— James C. Rees, Executive Director, Historic Mount Vernon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaim for Lafayette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Harlow Unger has cornered the market on muses to emerge as America's most readable historian. His new biography of the Marquis de Lafayette combines a thoroughgoing account of the age of revolution, a probing psychological study of a complex man, and a literary style that goes down like cream.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Florence King, contributing editor, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To American readers Unger's biography will provide a stark reminder of just how near run a thing was our War of Independence and the degree to which our forefathers' victory hinged on the help of our French allies, marshalled for George Washington by his 'adopted' son, Lafayette.\"—Larry Collins, coauthor, \u003ci\u003eIs Paris Burning?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eO Jerusalem!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An admirable account of his [Lafayette's] life and extraordinary career on both sides of the Atlantic.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471744964\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471744962\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Harlow Giles Unger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43212303466712,"sku":"9780471744962","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780470255285_FC_mockup_v2_1738715827_0af06c1b-68f3-4cb2-8c15-185a3e755c21.jpg?v=1790998053"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-harlow-giles-unger.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}