Posted on 05/25/2016 12:02:32 AM PDT by Hugh Kenrick
"The founding of the United States was among the most dramatic and glorious events in history. For the first time, a nation was founded on the principle of individual rights. Those interested in learning about America’s founding and its cause may turn to history texts. But history texts, even when their content is accurate, tend to be dry accounts of events. They lack the excitement of an adventure novel. Yet most novels set in the Revolutionary period are not good sources of information: Being works of fiction, they may take liberties with historical fact; and they often employ the American Revolution merely as their setting, not as their focus. What if one could find a work that combined the accuracy of a well-researched historical work with the dramatic presentation of a work of fiction? Fortunately, such a combination exists—the Sparrowhawk series of six novels by Edward Cline."
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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”
Sounds like a good read!
“For the first time, a nation was founded on the principle of individual rights.”
The result being that, two hundred years later, Marxists in government would bend their wills, efforts, and pocketbooks to taking away those rights.
Not mentioning any names, of course...
...Hillary... obama...
How can AmRevWar actually be its focus if it is before the war?
Thank you for the ping. I generally do not read fiction, but I will look into this series.
Picky, picky. The events leading up to the separation are equally, or more, important. What drives people to rebel? How can new societies form on the basis of constrained and limited governments? Why and how did this happen here? Why not in Mexico and south? Why not in Canada? How did the leaders of the movement manage to coalesce thought in such a large expanse, gain public support and impel people to action? How could this happen with slow written communications in colonies with few printing presses and (I’m guessing here) little locally manufactured paper upon which to print newspapers and broadsides?
The decades before the war are a most fascinating period.
Then you have the corollary period today. How did the people lose their will to control government and limit its scope? How did we sleepwal into tyranny and despotism? How will today’s trends end? Will the USA cease to exist?
All valid points.
Oh no question this is good stuff.
But technically it is NOT the war itself, so it still does not satisfy that definition presented! (And indeed, the RevWar is woefully neglected, although there has been more recently).
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Thank you, though. I guess I’ll just have to be patient.
Beautiful picture! Incidentally, the author of Sparrowhawk, Ed Cline, lives in Virginia. He relocated there from California when he began writing Sparrowhawk so that he could have first hand research.
I’m not familiar with John Jake’s Kent Family Series. I’ll add it to my potential reading list.
Thanks for the tip.
It’s beautiful and inspiring. It’s Romantic fiction at its best.
It’s people like Mr. Ed Cline who will fight to the very end to save the country. In addition to Sparrowhawk, he has also written several detective novels and has a regular column, Rule of Reason, where he comments on politics, philosophy, history, and current events.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have. I will cherish these novels like I cherish a close friend that you want to visit again and again.
Ed Cline’s novels transport me to another world where men learned to fight for their values. There are still good fighting men like those in his books. Mr. Cline is one of them.
“The events leading up to the separation are equally, or more, important. What drives people to rebel?”
Well said. That is what Mr. Cline’s fictional account illustrates: the ideas behind the Revolution. No other nation was ever established with the basic premise that man’s right to his own life, to his own liberty, and to the pursuit of his own happiness. In Sparrowhawk, Mr Cline tells a beautiful story with heroic characters with the spirit of events and ideas that caused men to rebel against tyranny using the pre-American Revolution as a backdrop.
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