Background
Fleming, Thomas James was born on July 5, 1927 in Jersey City. Son of Thomas James and Katherine (Dolan) Fleming.
( Beautiful, rebellious Bess Fitzmaurice is mesmerized by...)
Beautiful, rebellious Bess Fitzmaurice is mesmerized by Dan McCaffrey, an American of Irish descent who has come to Ireland to aid the Fenian revolt against British tyranny. He appears in her home on May Eve 1865, fleeing British forces. To Bess, Dan is the mythical Donal Ogue, the hero of a famous Irish poem, returned to rescue Ireland--but right now, he is an American Civil War veteran on the run. Bess and her brother, Michael, get Dan to a ship, and they flee to America. In 1865, America is a nation ravaged by four years of Civil War. Bess discovers that among the Irish-American Fenians money and power and patriotism are entangled in bewildering and demoralizing ways, while Dan McCaffrey surrenders to the corruption of New York City politics. The Fenians' invasion of Canada and their goal of holding the English colony hostage for a free Ireland become a hot issue in a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans. When the American federal government double-crosses the Fenians, forcing thousands of Irish Civil War veterans to abandon the Canadian invasion after winning the first battle, acrimony engulfs the movement, leading to feuds, name-calling--and murder. In despair, Bess quits the Fenians and finds love in the arms of former Union General Jonathan Stapleton. Their idyll, however, is soon interrupted by Dan McCaffrey, who forces her to choose between him and her new lover. A Passionate Girl is a riveting novel that takes the reader into a forgotten chapter in Irish-American history and provides an eye-opening look at the devastating impact of America's Civil War.
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(In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smiths...)
In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Fleming nimbly takes readers through a great deal of early American history, as our founding fathers struggle to reconcile the private and public–and often deal with a media every bit as gossip-seeking and inflammatory as ours today.
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(The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers The Intimate L...)
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Fleming, Thomas ( Author ) Paperback Nov- 2010 Paperback Nov- 09- 2010
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(Our history books are full of important episodes in Ameri...)
Our history books are full of important episodes in America's past, and of general biographies of those who have made that history. Rarely do they record, however, how an individual's faith shaped those events. Here, filling in the missing pieces, are thirty-seven portraits of defining moments in American religious history ranging from the Pilgrims to contemporary figures, including: Samuel Sewall, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Johnny Appleseed, Sojourner Truth, Emily Dickinson, Robert E. Lee, Woodrow Wilson, Dorothy Day, Bess Truman, John F. Kennedy, and others.
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(For many Americans, George Washington is just the face on...)
For many Americans, George Washington is just the face on a dollar bill. This book changes that perception. George Washington, Revolutionary War general, Founding Father, and first President of the United States was a warm and fascinating person. He suffered the agony of adolescent passion, fell in love with his best friend's wife, and married his friend Martha Custis. He poured out his political and military woes to his brother Jack in the dark days of 1776, and, in the midst of a miserable winter camped with his troops in Valley Forge, wrote a chatty letter to a friend in England. All these incidents are here in Washington's own words. Only through what Washington called his "letters of friendship" can we fully understand this complex man. They show him joking with his favorite Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette, advising his younger relatives on love and marriage, writing with emotion to the unobtainable woman he loved, and reconnecting with her in his old age. Selected and edited by New York Times bestselling author and historian Thomas Fleming from the thirty-seven volumes of Washington's collected writings, this book will be a revelation to all.
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(When Dick O'Gorman and Billy Kilroy choose Paradise Beach...)
When Dick O'Gorman and Billy Kilroy choose Paradise Beach, New Jersey as the ideal place to smuggle Cuban missiles for the IRA, they don't anticipate the upheaval into which the community will be thrown. Irish Americans, preoccupied by their loss of political power in the cities, have little sympathy for Ireland or the IRA. This is especially true of Patrolman Mike O'Day, an ex-Marine haunted by his moral failure in Vietnam. Worsening his inner torment, the beautiful Vietnamese woman who seduced him into betraying his own men is living as a refugee in Paradise Beach. The final element in this combustible mix is a British secret agent disguised as a priest, who, sowing raging suspicion between the IRA men and the Irish Americans, ignites a spiritual and physical explosion that tears the community apart.
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( This vivid, deeply moving book begins in London in 1620...)
This vivid, deeply moving book begins in London in 1620 as Pilgrim representatives sign a contract to purchase the freighter Mayflower. We accompany them on their harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, through the rigors of the first New England winter and the threat of Indian attack as they desperately search for the homesite they eventually find at Plymouth. Once at Plymouth they must continue the struggle against brutal weather and disease. But the story is by no means entirely grim and solemn. Young explorers get lost in the woods and climb trees to escape "roaring lions." There is a comic duel for the hand of a headstrong fifteen-year-old. We are present at a bizarre visit to the great Indian chief, Massasoit. With masterly skill, Mr. Fleming gives us life-size portraits of the Pilgrim leaders. The Pilgrims' unique achievements--the Mayflower Compact, their tolerance for other faiths, the strict separation of church and state--are discussed in the context of the first year's anxieties and crises. Special attention is given to the younger men who emerged in this first year as the real leaders of the colony--William Bradford and Miles Standish. And new insights are provided into the deep humanity and tolerance of the Pilgrims' spiritual shepherd, Elder William Brewster. On the first Thanksgiving, there is already in the Pilgrim mind a dawning consciousness that they are the forerunners of a great nation. It is implicit in William Bradford's words "As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light kindled here has shone unto many...."
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( 1865. The Civil War is over and the South lies in ruins...)
1865. The Civil War is over and the South lies in ruins. But for some, the former slaveholders have not been punished enough. A cabal of powerful men, led by Charles A. Dana, the Assistant Secretary of War, plot to break the spirit of the South once and for all--by convicting General Robert E. Lee of treason and hanging him like a common criminal. To this end, they have convened a secret military tribunal in Lee's former home in Arlington, Virginia. Jeremiah O'Brien of The New York Tribune, a long-time protege of Dana's, is the only reporter allowed to attend the trial. His exclusive reports on this momentous event, and the book he intends to write, will surely make his fortune. Yet as the trial proceeds, pitting the general against his accusers, O'Brien finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dana, his love for a beautiful Confederate spy, and his growing respect and compassion for Lee himself. The young reporter is supposed to be only an observer, but, in the end, it is O'Brien who must evaluate the evidence . . . and determine the true meaning of honor. Written by acclaimed author and historian Thomas Fleming, The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee brings to life a fascinating chapter in American history that might well have happened--and perhaps truly did.
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( They called themselves Sons of Liberty -- a revolutiona...)
They called themselves Sons of Liberty -- a revolutionary conspiracy that intended to form a new confederacy in the American heartland -- and put an end to the American Civil War. Backed by the South, the Sons launch guerilla attacks against Union troops. The year is 1864, the place Indiana and Kentucky. A time of ruthless censorship, conscription, and a seemingly endless war that has left a half a million Americans dead. Union Major Paul Stapleton falls in love with Janet Todd, courier and evangelist for the Sons of Liberty. Another admirer, Colonel Adam Jameson, readies his Confederate cavalry division to support the Sons' revolt. The battle for the future of America is about to begin.
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(Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill 366 pp. "Bri...)
Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill 366 pp. "Brings alive the personal stories of the men on both sides who fought at Bunker Hill and dispels the myths and distortions which have long clouded the battle."Keywords: BUNKER HILL MILITARY HISTORY REVOLUTIONARY WAR AMERICAN HISTORY COLONIAL AMERICA
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(A novel that crowns Thomas Fleming's forty-year career, C...)
A novel that crowns Thomas Fleming's forty-year career, Conquerors of the Sky takes readers on a gripping insider's journey into the lives and loves, the hopes and heartbreaks of the men and women who make America's planes. When Adrian Van Ness, the enigmatic chairman of Buchanan Aircraft, dies of a heart attack, a struggle for control of the aerospace giant erupts between burly Dick Stone, the tough-talking money man from New York, and Californian Cliff Morris, CEO and supersalesman. Sarah Morris, Cliff's estranged English-born wife, knows all the company's secrets. With her at the controls, Conquerors of the Sky becomes a time trip to the early years of the twentieth century, when flight was seen as spiritual ascent and idealistic Frank Buchanan began designing planes. New York aristocrat Adrian Van Ness is equally fascinated by these new machines--as a financial bonanza. In 1930, Adrian's amoral business genius and Frank's visions of ever swifter sleeker planes form a precarious alliance. Soon Buchanan Aircraft is competing with Lockheed and Boeing and Northrop for contracts to build airliners and bombers and fighters. As corrupt connections between generals and congressmen and presidents multiply, Frank sees some of his greatest planes scuttled by dirty political deals. He watches Adrian grow rich and powerful preaching the gospel of air power in the century's wars. When Dick Stone joins Buchanan he sees Adrian as his American father. But he soon shifts his spiritual allegiance to Frank Buchanan. Cliff Morris's flamboyant style conceals a ruinous moral collapse in the deadly skies over World War II Germany. His fear of discovery is worsened by the sardonic shadow of his stepbrother, Billy McCall, the supreme pilot Cliff will never become. Sarah loves all three men and ultimately has to choose between them, knowing that in the macho world of Buchanan Aircraft, women are objects to be enjoyed -- or used to sell the latest bomber or airliner. For women like Amanda Van Ness, Adrian's wife (and Frank Buchanan's lover), this leads to madness. For Sarah it leads to power -- at a terrible price. Spanning the history of flight from the clumsy fabric planes of 1911 to the whizzing stealth fighters of today, Conquerors of the Sky is a page-turning drama of the struggle to mesh aerodynamic visions with the harsh realities of cashflow and profits -- and with the desires and dreams of the men and women who inhabit this unique world. Told by a master of the historical imagination, it is a must-read book that will launch America into the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of flight.
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(A Place in the Woods/The Death Committee/The Man from Mon...)
A Place in the Woods/The Death Committee/The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson/The Three Daughters of Madame Liang/Snatch (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 3: 1969)
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(This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)
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(With the eye of a novelist and the rigor of a historian, ...)
With the eye of a novelist and the rigor of a historian, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming delivers a fascinating and vivid account of the Siege of Yorktown. Along with French General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, George Washington made an astonishing march through New Jersey and trapped British General Charles Cornwallis and his forces in Yorktown, Virginia, where they unleashed a tremendous artillery assault, with the support of the French navy. But victory was never certain - both sides made a series of dramatic attacks and counterattacks. Using the diaries and letters of participants in the siege, Fleming creates a moving and exciting depiction of the days in October 1781 that ended the American Revolution and changed the world.
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(Benjamin Franklin did not live to tell his own story. Now...)
Benjamin Franklin did not live to tell his own story. Now, with the publication of Benjamin Franklin: A Biography In His Own Words, his full story becomes available. Drawing upon the definitive edition of The Papers Of Benjamin Franklin, currently being published in a multivolume series for scholars by Yale University Press, Thomas Fleming and the Editors of the Newsweek Book Division have compiled a unique and fascinating book about one of the nation's true folk heroes.
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( As the British scheme to kidnap George Washington and b...)
As the British scheme to kidnap George Washington and bring the Revolutionary War to an end in one bold stroke, a tide of espionage ebbs and flows between the two opposing armies. It is 1780, and two very different men are sucked into these vicious currents. Tides that pull the men towards the bewitching embrace of Flora Kuyper, the beautiful spy who holds the future of America in her hands. This is a world of plot and counterplot, where a night of passion could lead to an act of treason and a man's avowed ideals could fashion a noose around his neck.
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(This sequel to "Remember the Morning, " set between 1827 ...)
This sequel to "Remember the Morning, " set between 1827 and the onset of the Civil War, recounts the romantic and political exploits of Hugh Stapleton's grandson, George, and his powerful circle of friends.
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(Assigned to Spain as an intelligence officer, Lieutenant ...)
Assigned to Spain as an intelligence officer, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Talbot meets a beautiful, idealistic member of the German anti-Nazi movement and falls into a web of espionage. By the author of Time and Tide. $30,000 ad/promo.
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( The political history of the American experience in Wor...)
The political history of the American experience in World War I is a story of conflict and bungled intentions that begins in an era dedicated to progressive social reform and ends in the Red Scare and Prohibition. Thomas Fleming tells this story through the complex figure of Woodrow Wilson, the contradictory president who wept after declaring war, devastated because he knew it would destroy the tolerance of the American people, but who then suppressed freedom of speech and used propaganda to excite America into a Hun-hating mob. This is tragic history: inexperienced American military leaders drove their troops into gruesome slaughters; progressive politics were put on hold in America; an idealistic president's dreams were crushed because of his own negligence. Wilson's inability to convince Congress to ratify U.S. membership in the League of Nations was one of the most poignant failures in the history of the American presidency, but even more heartrending were Wilson's concessions to his bitter allies in the Treaty of Versailles. In exchange for Allied support of the League of Nations, he allowed an unfair peace treaty to be signed, a treaty that played no small role in the rise of National Socialism and the outbreak of World War II. Thomas Fleming has once again created a masterpiece of narrative American history. This incomparable portrait shows how Wilson sacrificed his noble vision to megalomania and single-mindedness, while paying homage to him as a visionary whose honorable spirit continues to influence Western politics.
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(Provides a close-up, illustrated study of a pivotal year ...)
Provides a close-up, illustrated study of a pivotal year in American and world history, as a group of American patriots draws up a Declaration of Independence and a military force, under the leadership of George Washington, embarks on a quest for freedom.
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(The Battle of Bunker Hill was the crossing of a line. It ...)
The Battle of Bunker Hill was the crossing of a line. It was the last moment when matters could conceivably be resolved. This was where it ceased to be a local discontent and became a civil war. This book gives the story of the people who took part in it. On the American side there are heros like Putnam, the bluff and honest frontier soldier, and the saintly Dr. Warren. There are also heros on the British side like Pitcarin with his courtesy and all-to-rare nobblesse oblige toward his men. And Howe, the old-school warrior from an old-school warrior family. We are also shown the nervous bewildered militiamen who that day recieved the baptism of fire that would make them the core of the Continental Army. Including the ironically incompetant artillerymen whom none would have suspected would be the spirtual ancestors of America's great gunners that have been the terror of her foes on many a field. And the infantry hovering on the edge of running, yet somehow managing to stand, and stand, and stand. We also meet the common British soldiery, with their colorful customs and generations-old traditions. They are revealed, not as the red-coated "Imperial Stormtroopers" of the pernecious legend, but as skilled, loyal and brave men who went to their deaths, not for grand theories but because comrades stick together even under the shadow of death. We are also shown the civilans and how it struck them. The new-discovery of the horror of war. And the escalating cycle of hate and malice between Patriot and Loyalist.
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Recounts the story behind the defeat, of the British forces under Banastre Tarleton by Daniel Morgan's rebels, that helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War in the South. The battlefield, a pasture in North Carolina, is now part of the National Park System. Includes brief notes about related battlegrounds and a list of books for further reading.
( Recounts the story behind the defeat, of the British fo...)
Recounts the story behind the defeat, of the British forces under Banastre Tarleton by Daniel Morgan's rebels, that helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War in the South. The battlefield, a pasture in North Carolina, is now part of the National Park System. Includes brief notes about related battlegrounds and a list of books for further reading.
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(In pre-Revolutionary America, two women, one black and on...)
In pre-Revolutionary America, two women, one black and one white, are captured by Seneca Indians and adopted into the tribe, but when they return to a white world at the age of seventeen, the black woman becomes the white woman's slave, and their lives become a tangled mess."
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Fleming, Thomas James was born on July 5, 1927 in Jersey City. Son of Thomas James and Katherine (Dolan) Fleming.
Bachelor of Arts, Fordham University, 1950; postgraduate, School Social Work, 1950-1951.
Reporter Yonkers (New York ) Herald Statesman, 1951. Assistant to Fulton Oursler, 1951-1952, literature executor estate, 1953. Associate editor Cosmopolitan magazine, 1954-1958, executive editor, 1959-1961.
Writer, since 1961
Consultant Irish American Chronicle, 2009, orthodox consultant, 09.
(In pre-Revolutionary America, two women, one black and on...)
(In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smiths...)
(Provides a close-up, illustrated study of a pivotal year ...)
(A novel that crowns Thomas Fleming's forty-year career, C...)
( The political history of the American experience in Wor...)
(This sequel to "Remember the Morning, " set between 1827 ...)
(When Dick O'Gorman and Billy Kilroy choose Paradise Beach...)
(New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming creat...)
(A Place in the Woods/The Death Committee/The Man from Mon...)
(Assigned to Spain as an intelligence officer, Lieutenant ...)
( They called themselves Sons of Liberty -- a revolutiona...)
( As the British scheme to kidnap George Washington and b...)
Recounts the story behind the defeat, of the British forces under Banastre Tarleton by Daniel Morgan's rebels, that helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War in the South. The battlefield, a pasture in North Carolina, is now part of the National Park System. Includes brief notes about related battlegrounds and a list of books for further reading.
( Recounts the story behind the defeat, of the British fo...)
( Beautiful, rebellious Bess Fitzmaurice is mesmerized by...)
( Beautiful, rebellious Bess Fitzmaurice is mesmerized by...)
(The Man from Monticello is the highly regarded and award-...)
(With the eye of a novelist and the rigor of a historian, ...)
(The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers The Intimate L...)
(As the British scheme to kidnap George Washington and bri...)
( This vivid, deeply moving book begins in London in 1620...)
(This vivid, deeply moving book begins in London in 1620 a...)
(Our history books are full of important episodes in Ameri...)
(What is the myth of 1776? To state it in its baldest term...)
(Thomas Fleming is a distinguished historian and the autho...)
(Promises To Keep A story of a young man who loses his fam...)
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(1976: by Thomas Fleming- The struggle for and against the...)
(“I have not sought or desired this new ministry,” Pope Jo...)
(For many Americans, George Washington is just the face on...)
(Sory of the Battle of Bunker Hill during the Revolutionar...)
(Illusion of Victory : Americans in World War I by Thomas ...)
(The story of the Pilgrims first year in the New World.)
(Benjamin Franklin did not live to tell his own story. Now...)
(The Battle of Bunker Hill was the crossing of a line. It ...)
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Chairman New York American Revolution Round Table, 1970-1981, senior scholar, American Revolution Center. Fellow New Jersey History Society, Society of America Historians (president since 2007). Member American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (president 1971-1973), The Century Association.
Married Alice Mulcahey, January 19, 1951. Children: Alice, Thomas, David, Richard.