"Frank Latham deserves to be nobly rewarded for filling a long-vacant niche with this book on Nathanael Greene for young people. The story of the Quaker blacksmith who ranked second to George Washington as a military leader in the Revolution is told swiftly and simply and with meticulous attention to historical documentation.
"Aspects of his career usually ignored—his excommunication by the Society of Friends; the parts played by Henry Knox, the bookseller-general who taught Greene military strategy, and by Ezra Stiles, later President of Yale, who fed his hunger for books—are recounted with a drama that is sure to break down the resistance of even the most unwilling reader."
-Kenneth M. Gould
Editor-in-Chief, The Scholastic Magazines

In The Fighting Quaker, Frank Latham has combined a historian's accurate narrative of the little-known southern campaigns of the ragged...

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