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Bourne, Russell was born on October 10, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Standish T. and Sylvia (Russell) Bourne.
( They did the dirty work of the American Revolution The...)
They did the dirty work of the American Revolution Their spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the Acts of Parliament and finally toward revolution. They tarred and feathered the backsides of British customs officials, gutted the mansion of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, armed themselves with marline spikes and cudgels to fight on the waterfront against soldiers of the British occupation, and hurled the contents of 350 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor under the very guns of the anchored British fleet. Cradle of Violence introduces the maritime workers who ignited the American Revolution: the fishermen desperate to escape impressment by Royal Navy press gangs, the frequently unemployed dockworkers, the wartime veterans and starving widows--all of whose mounting ""tumults"" led the way to rebellion. These were the hard-pressed but fiercely independent residents of Boston's North and South Ends who rallied around the Liberty Tree on Boston Common, who responded to Samuel Adams's cries against ""Tyranny,"" and whose headstrong actions helped embolden John Hancock to sign the Declaration of Independence. Without the maritime mobs' violent demonstrations against authority, the politicians would not have spurred on to utter their impassioned words; Great Britain would not have been provoked to send forth troops to quell the mob-induced rebellion; the War of Independence would not have happened. One of the mobs' most telling demonstrations brought about the Boston Massacre. After it, John Adams attempted to calm the town by dismissing the waterfront characters who had been killed as ""a rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattoes, Irish teagues, and outlandish jack tars."" Cradle of Violence demonstrates that they were, more truly, America's first heroes.
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The history of the Erie Canal is chronicled in this book, which traces the efforts of engineers and construction workers to complete an inland water route which connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie, covering a distance of 363 miles and utilizing a system of 83 locks.
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( They did the dirty work of the American Revolution The...)
They did the dirty work of the American Revolution Their spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the Acts of Parliament and finally toward revolution. They tarred and feathered the backsides of British customs officials, gutted the mansion of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, armed themselves with marline spikes and cudgels to fight on the waterfront against soldiers of the British occupation, and hurled the contents of 350 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor under the very guns of the anchored British fleet. Cradle of Violence introduces the maritime workers who ignited the American Revolution: the fishermen desperate to escape impressment by Royal Navy press gangs, the frequently unemployed dockworkers, the wartime veterans and starving widows--all of whose mounting ""tumults"" led the way to rebellion. These were the hard-pressed but fiercely independent residents of Boston's North and South Ends who rallied around the Liberty Tree on Boston Common, who responded to Samuel Adams's cries against ""Tyranny,"" and whose headstrong actions helped embolden John Hancock to sign the Declaration of Independence. Without the maritime mobs' violent demonstrations against authority, the politicians would not have spurred on to utter their impassioned words; Great Britain would not have been provoked to send forth troops to quell the mob-induced rebellion; the War of Independence would not have happened. One of the mobs' most telling demonstrations brought about the Boston Massacre. After it, John Adams attempted to calm the town by dismissing the waterfront characters who had been killed as ""a rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattoes, Irish teagues, and outlandish jack tars."" Cradle of Violence demonstrates that they were, more truly, America's first heroes.
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With rare photographs from the Library of Congress, this history of U.S. transportation highlights the importance of mobility to the American way of life.
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(This text presents the descriptions, histories, plans and...)
This text presents the descriptions, histories, plans and photographs of yacht designs by Sparkman and Stephens, a major 20th-century naval architecture firm. It contains a comprehensive collection of plans for many of Sparkman and Stephens' most admired yacht designs.
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(Still vital, still picturesque, New England's fishing com...)
Still vital, still picturesque, New England's fishing communities have played a special role in American history. Seventeenth-century fishermen on Maine's outer islands saved the pilgrims from starvation; eighteenth-century cod fishermen helped to build America's earliest towns; nineteenth-century whalers from Nantucket and New Bedford gave the nation its first great fortunes. The fishermen's fierce sense of independence helped inspire the American Revolution. This illustrated book, drawing on blueprints, art, archives, personal papers and journals, provides a vivid account of the fishermen's lives and the communities in which they lived - and still live. From Connecticut to Nantucket, New Bedford to the Maine islands, the author explores these communities shaped by the sea and its produce.
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Bourne, Russell was born on October 10, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Standish T. and Sylvia (Russell) Bourne.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Williams College, 1950.
Reporter, Life magazine, 1950-1953; assistant to Henry R. Luce, Life magazine, 1953-1956; associate editor, Architectural Forum, 1956-1959; editor, American Heritage Junior Library, 1959-1964; editor, Time-Life Books, Great Ages of Man, 1964-1969; associate chief, National Geography Book Service, 1969-1972; partner, Bourne-Thompson & Associations, Washington, 1972-1977; senior editor, Smithsonian Exposition Books, Washington, 1977-1980; public, Hearst General Books, New York City, 1980-1981; public, editor, American Heritage Books, New York City, 1981-1983; public consultant, since 1984.
(The history of the Erie Canal is chronicled in this book,...)
( They did the dirty work of the American Revolution The...)
( They did the dirty work of the American Revolution The...)
(This text presents the descriptions, histories, plans and...)
(Still vital, still picturesque, New England's fishing com...)
( With rare photographs from the Library of Congress, thi...)
Served with Counter Intelligence corpus, United States army, Berlin, 1950-1952.
Married Miriam Anne Young, August 22, 1953 (deceased). Children: Sarah Perkins, Jonathan, Louise Taber, Andrew Russell. Married Dora Grabfield Flash, October 31, 1992.