Urn:oclc:824183384 Scandate 20100311230854 Scanner . Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.

O元378542W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.83 Pages 396 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:129923061X Urn:lcp:firstsalute00tuch:epub:e3b85af1-40ce-4dcb-95f7-072f9bd31cd4 Extramarc University of Michigan Foldoutcount 0 Identifier firstsalute00tuch Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4qj82p6n Isbn 0394553330Ġ8045216 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition The First Salute refers to the events of 16 November 1776, when the governor of Saint Eustatius, Johannes de Graaff, returned the salute of the visiting American ship Andrew Doria the first time a great power acknowledged an American vessel at sea, thereby tacitly recognizing American independence. They had three daughters, including Jessica Mathews, who became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.' (from Wikipedia).Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:14:32 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA102517 Boxid_2 CH104201 Camera Canon 5D City New York Edition 2.

It brings vividly to life the people and events responsible for the birth of our nation. Tuchman, an internist, medical researcher and professor of clinical medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan. A compellingly written work of history, The First Salute presents a fresh, new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to American nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution five years later. A first book resulted from her Spanish experience, The Lost British Policy: Britain and Spain Since 1700, published in 1938. She also contributed to The Nation as a correspondent until her father's sale of the publication in 1937, traveling to Valencia and Madrid to cover the Spanish Civil War. 'Following graduation, Wertheim worked as a volunteer research assistant at the Institute of Pacific Relations in New York, spending a year in Tokyo in 1934 35, including a month in China, before returning to the United States via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Moscow and on to Paris. Tuchman (19121989) was a self-trained historian and author who achieved prominence with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1963.

The price clipped dust jacket is crisp and clean. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket.

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