Book Discussion – Unlikely General: “Mad” Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America (Hybrid)

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Unlikely General: “Mad” Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America by Mary Stockwell (2018)

A spendthrift, womanizer, and heavy drinker who had just been ejected from Congress for voter fraud, Anthony Wayne was an unlikely savior. Yet this disreputable man raised a new army and, in 1794, scored a decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, successfully preserving his country and President Washington’s legacy. Drawing from Wayne’s letters, historian Stockwell sheds light on this fascinating and underappreciated figure. Her compelling work pays long‑overdue tribute to a man—ravaged physically and emotionally by his years of military service—who fought to defend the nascent American experiment at a critical moment in history. -excerpt from Amazon.com

PLEASE NOTE: A second book originally scheduled for this date, Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World by Ethan A. Schmidt (2014), will be rescheduled for a later Book Group discussion.

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