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David Hackett Fischer

Biography

David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer is University Professor at Brandeis University, and the author of such acclaimed volumes as ALBION'S SEED, THE GREAT WAVE, PAUL REVERE'S RIDE and LIBERTY AND FREEDOM.

David Hackett Fischer

Books by David Hackett Fischer

by David Hackett Fischer - History, Nonfiction

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington --- and many other Americans --- refused to let the Revolution die.