Willard Sterne Randall, Author . HarperCollins $32.50 (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-019549-6
Biographer of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, Randall is in his usual engaging form in dealing with the complex Hamilton, who in 1804 died in a duel with Aaron Burr. Creating a bigger-than-life hero, Randall sometimes strains credibility in the...
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Willard Sterne Randall, Author Henry Holt & Company $35 (736p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1577-5
Randall's masterful, gracefully written portrait brings us closer to Jefferson than any previous biography. The self-taught stoic who tried to make himself an embodiment of the Age of Reason was also, in Randall's view, a tortured romantic who kept...
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Willard Sterne Randall, Author Henry Holt & Company $35 (708p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2779-2
By the time John Adams exclaims, on July 4, 1776, ""The revolution is now complete: all that remains is a war,"" Randall's lively life of Washington is more than half over. In keeping his biography to a single volume, Randall appears to have excised
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Willard Sterne Randall, Author Little Brown and Company $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-73365-6
Before the Revolution, Ben Franklin and his only son William were very close, but when William, royal governor of New Jersey, remained a loyalist, Ben disowned him. PW praised Randall's ""richly detailed narrative of these men and their painful...
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Willard Sterne Randall, Author William Morrow & Company $27.95 (667p) ISBN 978-1-55710-034-4
The most notorious traitor in American history, Benedict Arnold is little remembered for his impressive military accomplishments, which are recalled in this richly detailed biography. In 1776 he stemmed the British thrust from Canada in the naval...
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Willard Sterne Randall, Author Quill $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10968-4
This study, which contends that Arnold was ill-treated by America, reveals Arnold's impressive military accomplishments, his reasons for offering his services to the British in 1779, new information about his wife's role in the betrayal and his...
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Willard Sterne Randall. Norton, $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-393-07665-3
The brash, multifaceted ebullience of the United States at its birth comes through in this rich portrait of Ethan Allen (1738–1789), one of its iconic founders. Historian Randall (Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor) gives us a complex, protean...
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Willard Sterne Randall. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-11183-8
In this detailed, if occasionally dense, account, Randall (Ethan Allen: His Life and Times), professor emeritus of history at Champlain College, argues that the War of 1812 was not a discrete conflict, but rather the culmination of a long struggle...
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Willard Sterne Randall. Dutton, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-524745-92-9
Historian Randall (Unshackling America) explores in this intriguing yet unsatisfying survey how the founding fathers’ personal financial circumstances helped chart the course of the American Revolution. Delving into the business interests and...
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