Winner · 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History

Washington's Crossing

Name: Washington's Crossing
ISBN: 1419304941

by David Hackett Fischer

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Publisher: RB Large Print
Length: ≈ 823 pages
Reading time: 21–28 hours
ISBN: 1419304941

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What is this book about?

Washington’s Crossing is about George Washington’s leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It builds up to his crossing of the Delaware River and the fighting that followed at Trenton, Assunpink Creek and Princeton. David Hackett Fischer’s central theme is contingency: the idea that people’s decisions matter, and that events turned out as they did because of the choices Washington and others made.

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