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Leap of faith.(Book Review)
John E. Ferling A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. Oxford Press, 576 pages, $30
Pessimists, as the saying goes, see the glass half empty, optimists see the glass half full. John Ferling's new book, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, is definitely one for the half empty crowd. Midway through, after more than two hundred pages lurching from crisis to ever deeper crisis, faced with bumbling generals, mutinous soldiers, conniving junior officers, rapacious land speculators, war profiteering merchants, inept state legislators, and a shortsighted national leadership, the reader almost wishes that the British ...
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