Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reminiscent of the Ziegfeld era was Broadway's revival of the musical that starred Marilyn Miller: 1. Girl Crazy. 2. Rose Marie. 3. Roberta. 4. Sally. 5. The Ziegfeld Follies...
TRIUMPH OF FREEDOM 1775-1783 (718 pp.]-John C. Miller-Little, Brown...
They had been so long accustomed to fighting with the support of the American population that they could not visualize the danger of fighting with most of the people against them. By the time they woke up to the seriousness of the war, says Author Miller, the French were involved and "the struggle became a war of survival against some of the most formidable odds faced by the island kingdom since the days of the Spanish Armada...
...seemed a revolution in England, it seemed to most of the U.S. (and still seems) a war for independence. The chief weakness of Triumph of Freedom is that Author Miller does not distinguish between the two. The revolution and the war of independence went on simultaneously, the war in the strategy of the armies, the diplomatic deals in France (very fully treated in this volume) and the actions of Congress taken by the colonists as a whole; the revolution in the property seizures of the patriot committees, the defiance of the riflemen to their officers, the punishment visited on Loyalists...
...Cheer." Author Miller, who teaches at Bryn Mawr, is the author of a biography of Sam Adams and of Origins of the American Revolution. He writes in the carefully documented tradition of Henry Adams-i.e., unsparing, exact, relying largely on original sources, skeptical of pretensions to high motives. There is, in fact, an undercurrent of exasperation in Author Miller's account, as if he placed the grim record of incompetence and theft and treason in evidence, and said: "Now cheer." Curiously enough, the heroism of the seven years' struggle is all the more remarkable in an account...