Biblioteki Polonii Amerykańskiej
Biblioteka Instytutu Józefa Piłsudskiego w Ameryce
Library of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America		 Biblioteka imienia Alfreda Jurzykowskiego Polskiego Instytutu Naukowego w Ameryce
The Alfred Jurzykowski Memorial Library of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America		 Biblioteka Marjanczyków Polskiej Fundacji Kulturalnej
The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation
Biblioteka Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej
Library of the Kosciuszko Foundation

Friends of liberty : Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Agrippa Hull : a tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and a tragic betrayal of freedom in the new nation / Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c2008.Description: vii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780465048144
  • 0465048145
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.3 22
LOC classification:
  • E206 .N36 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Starting a revolution -- Fighting for freedom -- Peace and war -- Struggles for liberty -- Long endings.
Summary: Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army.--From publisher description.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences Polacy na świecie 305 N (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan
Books Books The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation E206.N36 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan ML13120042

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and index.

Starting a revolution -- Fighting for freedom -- Peace and war -- Struggles for liberty -- Long endings.

Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army.--From publisher description.

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