John E. Ferling, Author . Oxford Univ. $26 (260p) ISBN 978-0-19-516771-9
Warring ideologies, polarizing debate and ugly name-calling ("fanatic," "libertine," "atheist"): sound familiar? Well, it's not the election of 2004 or even 2000, but of 1800. With this year's election imminent,...
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John E. Ferling, Author . Oxford Univ. $29.95 (679p) ISBN 978-0-19-518121-0
Ferling, professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia, caps his distinguished career as a scholar and popular writer on the colonial/revolutionary period with arguably the best, and certainly one of the most stimulating, single-volume...
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John E. Ferling, Author University of Tennessee Press $39.95 (598p) ISBN 978-0-87049-562-5
In addition to reviewing the first president's familiar sterling attributes, Ferling, a historian at West Georgia College, focuses on his character flaws, although here there isn't a great deal of material to work with. The young Washington was...
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John E. Ferling, Author Holt McDougal $20 (536p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4576-5
Historian Ferling presents the highly eventful life and times of the second president. (June)
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John E. Ferling. Bloomsbury, $40 (736p) ISBN 978-1-63557-276-6
Historian Ferling (Apostles of the Revolution) examines in this deeply researched and well-argued account how the Revolutionary War shifted from a conflict “that many on both sides had thought would be short, and not especially bloody” to a “gigantic
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