Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy

M. William Phelps

ISBN 10: 0312376413 / ISBN 13: 9780312376413

Published by Thomas Dunne Books 2008-09, New York, 2008

About this Item

Very Good Hardcover Very Good Dust Jacket No Writing in Text. 306 pp. Ex-Library with Mylar protected cover pasted down. No jacket chips. See our scans Solid reading and study copy of this fascinating young handsome beloved Yale student who was interested in women's education and America's Creation and freedom to risk his life to spy in New York City for American freedom and wound up sentenced by Howe and hung by a terrible sadist and as a patriot left to rot as a traitor for days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books 2008-09, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312376413
• ISBN 13: 9780312376413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American.Edition.
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • North American Folklore and Supernatural
  • American Revolution / French & Indian War
  • Dutch and Colonial New York / New England / Vir...

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Synopsis

A portrait of the legendary Revolutionary War patriot traces his Connecticut childhood and Yale education through perspectives about soldier life and his service as a spy, in an account that draws on Hale's personal journals and letters. 20,000 first printing.

About the Author

M. WILLIAM PHELPS is a veteran journalist and the author of seven nonfiction books. He has written articles for the Providence Journal, the Hartford Courant, and New London Day, and has been profiled in such publications as the Writer’s Digest, New York Daily News, Newsday, the Albany Times-Union, the Hartford Courant, and the New York Post. He has also consulted for television and has appeared on the Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, Biography Channel, History Channel, Fox News Channel, CN8, and ABC’s Good Morning America, among many others. He lives in a small Connecticut farming community, about four miles from the Nathan Hale Homestead, with his wife, children, and Labrador retriever.