The Founding Fortunes provides a riveting history of economic patriotism that still resonates today
In his carefully researched and meticulously referenced book
The Ethan Allen that emerges here is not a warrior hero of the American Revolution but a successful Vermont nationalist who is justly celebrated as the principal founder of the State of Vermont
it delivers eighteenth-century American history from a Native American perspective
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Dearest Blood, A Romance of the Revolution Books The Founding Fortunes provides aA novel about Fanny Allen Penniman, who lived here at the Ethan Allen Homestead in the 1780s & 1790s. Written by local author, Jessie Haas, President of the Westminster Historical Society, and filled with research into Revolutionary War history in Vermont. In 1775, fifteen year old Fanny Montresor, living with her stepmother Margaret in Westminster, New York, a town hostile to loyalists, is horrified to discover that her parents plan to marry her off