The John Brown House Museum, a museum of the Rhode Island Historical Society, will host Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and #1 New York Times bestselling author Rick Atkinson on Friday, May 9th, at 11am for a signing of his new book The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 and a conversation led by RIHS Executive Director Dr. C. Morgan Grefe.
The Fate of the Day focuses on the middle years of the American Revolution, as American, British, and European powers begin to understand the full breadth of the conflict. Stationed in Paris, Benjamin Franklin woos the French; in Pennsylvania, George Washington pleads with Congress to deliver the money, men, and materiel he needs to continue the fight. In New York, General William Howe, the commander of the greatest army the British have ever sent overseas, plans a new campaign against the Americans—even as he is no longer certain that he can win this searing, bloody war. The months and years that follow bring epic battles at Brandywine, Saratoga, Monmouth, and Charleston, an infamous winter of misery in Valley Forge, and yet more appeals for sacrifice by every American committed to the struggle for freedom.
This event takes place at the John Brown House Museum (52 Power Street, Providence, Rhode Island). Doors open at 10:30am for a book signing and reception. Tickets start at $50 for RIHS members and $60 for general admission, which includes a copy of The Fate of the Day. Tickets are available here.
Winner of Pulitzer Prizes for history and journalism, Atkinson has produced a remarkable oeuvre of bestsellers that includes the Liberation Trilogy (the first volume, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, received the Pulitzer in History), The Long Gray Line, Crusade, In the Company of Soldiers, and, most recently, The British Are Coming, the critically acclaimed first volume of his eagerly anticipated Revolution Trilogy. A multi-week New York Times bestseller, The British Are Coming has received awards from Mount Vernon, the New-York Historical Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Fraunces Tavern Museum.