Description - The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord
It was the summer of l8l4. Torn by internal conflict, plagued by an empty treasury, embittered by the human cost of a war that couldn't be won, the United States seemed on the verge of collapse. Yet within a few months America was again safe and at peace, her people unified, her economy mending. The turning point in this reversal of fortune is the story of this book. This is a story of blunders and coups, of cowardice and courage. But above all, it is a story of an America we often forget today: a small, young, and not always wise country struggling against the most powerful nation in the world. Things were dark in that summer of 1814, but in a sudden, dramatic turnabout a whole new sense of national identity emerged from the smoky haze of what Francis Scott Key so lyrically called "the dawn's early light".
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