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Title: Rise to Rebellion by JEFFREY M. SHAARA ISBN: 0-345-45206-2 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (110 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Shaara has done it again
Comment: You can't go wrong when you have read a book by Jeff Shaara. To clear up any confusion, this is historical fiction. It's impossibe to delve into the minds of people of the past and know for sure what they were thinking or what they would have said at all times, so everything we read in this book relating to the thoughts of a person or the dialogue between characters is not necessarily factual.
Shaara brilliantly brings to life some of the major players of the early stages of the American Revolution like John and Sam Adams, Ben Franklin and British General Thomas Gage; other figures are also discussed. The events covered are from the Boston Massacre in 1770 to the drafting and reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
This is the kind of book that is hard to put down. Very few writers can bring history to life like Jeff Shaara and cause people to realize that history does matter and that history is more than just names and dates. Shaara has the ability to bring these people and events to life.
These were unusual men and women in unusual times that helped shape a nation that has endured for over 220 years. They were not divine beings without faults, just humans who were given extrordinary abilities to help change the course of history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Shaara Masterpiece
Comment: When "Rise To Rebellion" was released last year, it was advertised as part 1 of a 2 part novel of the American Revolution. I decided to wait for part 2 to be published and then I would read them one after the other. I've just finished part 1 and consider it an extraordinarily interesting and well-written volume. Shaara's style is, as in his Civil War works, to follow key participants in a very personal way, making use of fictional dialogue. Fictional, but quite believable. I found this book far more entertaining than the best-selling "John Adams" biography. Shaara covers all the famous pre-1776 events--the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, Paul Revere's ride, Lexington and Concord--in a fluid manner that places each event into the overall framework of the Revolution. This book concludes with the signing of the Declaration of Independence (what was the only colony not to vote yes at the initial vote?) and I can't wait to get going on part 2, "The Glorious Cause".
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent interpretation of the beginnings of our nation
Comment: Jeff Shaara's Rise to Rebellion is a fantastic work that resonates with poignancy and masterful writing. The first of Shaara's novels were in a way the continuation of what his father had begun. Rise to Rebellion begins a two book set on the American Revolution and the events leading up to this momentous event in history. Following his previous style of writing, Shaara concentrates on just a few of the men involved in this event that changed the shape of the world. There is John Adams, a lawyer so honest that he defends the British accused of murder after the Boston Massacre, Ben Franklin, a man of science and great wit, spending time in England trying to help alleviate the situation and Thomas Gage, a British general who does not see the danger in the way he handles different situations in Boston. There are brief flashes of our other Founding Fathers: Sam Adams, Joseph Warren, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, and of course George Washington, a man whose role in history will be assured by events taking place in the second book. Shaara is masterful in this book, but it is nothing compared to the sequal.
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Title: The Glorious Cause by Jeffrey M. Shaara ISBN: 0345427580 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gone for Soldiers by Jeff Shaara ISBN: 0345427513 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara ISBN: 0345434811 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara ISBN: 0345422473 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara ISBN: 0345348109 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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