Almost a Miracle, by John Ferling

“John Ferling toiled for years in relative obscurity at West Georgia University, churning out at least nine books, dozens of articles, and uncounted reviews, almost all dealing with war and politics in eighteenth-century America, the same subjects that have brought fame and riches to Joseph Ellis, David Hackett Fischer, and David McCullough. His prose may lack the elegance of Ellis’s or McCullough’s, and he may not have plumbed the depths of manuscript evidence as Fischer has done, but his work is solid–clear, sensible, and intellectually nourishing. His most recent book, a 575-page, detailed narrative of the American Revolutionary War, is a personal masterpiece.” Read the review at Michigan War Studies Review.