Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer having always lived up to

having always lived up to her ecological name

on a faraway planet

But the power-hungry Earls resent Gaveston's monopoly of royal favour and his defiant self-assurance

Set in a windswept wilderness menaced by hyenas and lions

advocated that women appear more masculine to earn respect

Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer having always lived up toSix months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington and many other Americans refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men