Edd's Gatherin' Place

This painting is by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, American, 1816-1868 titled "George Washington Crossing the Deleware," 1851.

What can I say missed it… Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fisher, Oxford University Press, Published February 14, 2004. If you want to give someone who loves books and history at the same time, consider this genuinely gripping and heroic novel of America’s hard fibered determination for freedom.

Yes, I’m a Bibliophilist a lover of books, just ask any member of my family and take one look at a house crowded no crammed with books, since the age of sixteen (16) and an amateur collector since the age of thirty-two (32). After reading this mornings New York Times’ list of Best Books of 2004, I suddenly realized I had simply missed out on an absorbing historical take on General George Washington’s daring and desperate attempt to change the course of the American Revolutionary War. Washington’s astonishing and covert crossing of the Delaware River in the winter of 1776 struck a blow to the British at Trenton, New Jersey that according to many historians gave ultimate freedom to the colonists from British rule. Yorktown was the climax and surrender of the British but we all know that most if not all war’s have a crucial turning point and the Delaware River was ours. Trenton succumbed to Washington’s clinching and strategic decision in a time of war and to the grimacing tenacity of the troops who followed him.