6 Richard Ketchum Signed Revolutionary War Books American Revolution History

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6 Richard Ketchum Signed Revolutionary War Books American Revolution History:
$210.00

This sale includes six Richard Ketchum books about the revolutionary war. One is not about the war. Five are signed. They include:

1) Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution (signed)

2) Saratoga: Turning Point of America\'s Revolutionary War(signed)

3)Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill (signed)

4) The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton (signed)

5)Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York (not signed)

6) second cutting (signed)

All of them except for one are signed by Ketchum. Please ask questions. Make an offer!

ICHARD M. KETCHUM - SHELBURNE - Richard M. Ketchum, prominent American historian, writer, and editor, passed away on Jan. 12, 2012, at Wake Robin, the retirement community in Shelburne. He was 89 years old and died of natural causes. Ketchum was the co- founder of Blair and Ketchum\'s Country Journal Magazine, and the author of 17 books, including six titles focused on the American Revolution. These include the popular \"Saratoga: Turning Point of America\'s Revolutionary War,\" and \"Winter Soldiers.\" \"The Borrowed Years, 1938-1941: America on the Way to War,\" drew on Ketchum\'s experience during the Second World War. His most recent book, \"Down on the Farm (Up in Vermont): A Love Story,\" is a memoir of life on Saddleback Farm in Dorset, where he and his wife, Barbara Bray Ketchum, raised beef cattle, sheep, and goats. Richard Malcolm Ketchum was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 15, 1922. He attended the Linden School and Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh and graduated from Yale University in 1943 with a major in American History, his lifelong passion. During World War II he served as commanding officer of a submarine chaser in the South Atlantic. Married in 1943 to Barbara Bray, who danced with Martha Graham, the couple moved to Dorset following the War. Mr. Ketchum first worked for the Orvis Co. and then started his own advertising agency. In 1951 he joined the United States Information Agency, in Washington, D.C., where he was in charge of the overseas publications program. He and his family moved to Bronxville, N.Y. in 1956, when he joined American Heritage Publishing Co. He became Editorial Director of the Book Division, and was Associate Editor of American Heritage Magazine as well as vicepresident and director of the company. During that time, he edited many of the firm\'s books, including \"The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War,\" which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. In 1974 he and his wife returned to Vermont, where he and William S. Blair founded Blair and Ketchum\'s Country Journal. He was editor of the magazine until its sale in 1984. His monthly essays for the magazine, entitled \"Letter From the Country,\" were collected in the anthology \"Second Cutting.\" Ketchum and his wife Barbara, were deeply involved in Environmental and conservation issues at the local and state level. The Ketchum\'s were founding members of the Mettowee Valley Conservation Project and Dorset Citizens for Responsible Growth. Mr. Ketchum served as chairman of the board of the Vermont chapter of the Nature Conservancy. An active supporter of the arts, Ketchum was the first executive director of the Southern Vermont Art Center. He was later a trustee of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Historical Society, and Vermont Public Radio. He is a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his published books, Ketchum- who liked to call himself the \"town crank\"- was well-known for his pointed yet humorous letters to politicians of every stripe. His articles, opinion pieces, letters, and Op Eds appeared in New England newspapers, as well as in The New York Times, and covered a wide variety of subjects, from American history to conservation, politics, land use, and farming. In 2011, National Public Radio\'s Storycorps program profiled Richard and Barbara Ketchum for their Memory Project. An excerpt of the interview was aired on Vermont Public Radio and was part of the Memory Quilt exhibit at the Shelburne Museum. Richard Ketchum was devoted to his wife, Barbara, of 68 years, who preceded him in death by only three months. He will be remembered for his keen sense of humor, his passion for the natural world, and his belief in the importance of history. He leaves his daughter, Liza Ketchum and her husband, John H. Straus: son, Thomas Bray Ketchum and his wife, Pauline Dent Ketchum; sister, Janet Grayson Whitehouse; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a niece and two nephews; and a wide circle of friends. A Circle of Remembrance will be held at Wake Robin Community Center, 100 Wake Robin Drive, Shelburne, on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Vermont Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, or the Richard M. Ketchum American History Fund at Yale University.

Published in The Burlington Free Press on Jan. 15, 2012

Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York

Years of neglect in the mother country had allowed America\'s fledgling democracy to gain power, but by 1760 America had become the biggest and fastest-growing part of the British economy, and Britain required tribute. When the revolution came to New York City, it tore apart a community that was already riven by deep-seated familial, political, religious, and economic antagonisms. Focusing on a number of individuals, Divided Loyalties describes their response to increasingly drastic actions taken in London by a succession of the king\'s ministers, which finally forced people to take sides and decide whether they would continue their loyalty to Great Britain or cast their lot with the American insurgents.

Using fascinating detail to draw us into history\'s narrative, Richard M. Ketchum explains why men with similar life experiences-even members of the same family-chose different sides when the war erupted.

The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton

In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow. New York fell and the anguished retreat through New Jersey followed. Winter came with a vengeance, bringing what Thomas Paine called “the times that try men’s souls.”

The Winter Soldiers is the story of a small band of men held together by George Washington in the face of disaster and hopelessness, desperately needing at least one victory to salvage both cause and country. It is a tale of unimaginable hardship and suffering that culminated in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Without these triumphs, the rebellion that had begun so bravely could not have gone on.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Richard M. Ketchum graduated from Yale Unviersity and commanded a subchaser in the South Atlantic during World War II. As director of book publishing at American Heritage Publishing Company for twenty years, he edited many of that firm’s volumes, including The American Heritage Book of the Revolution and The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, which received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. Ketcham was the cofounder and editor of Blair & Ketcham’s Country Journal, a monthly magazine about rural life. He and his wife live on a sheep farm in Vermont. He is the author of two other Revolutionary War classics: Decisive Day and The Winter Soldiers.

Saratoga: Turning Point of America\'s Revolutionary War

In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America\'s history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skilfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution.

A New York Times Notable Book, 1997

Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution

by Richard M. Ketchum

From \"the finest historian of the American Revolution\" comes the definitive account of the battle and unlikely triumph that led to American independence (Douglas Brinkley)

In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington\'s army lay idle for want of supplies, food, and money. All hope seemed lost until a powerful French force landed at Newport in July. Then, under Washington\'s directives, Nathanael Greene began a series of hit-and-run operations against the British. The damage the guerrilla fighters inflicted would help drive the enemy to Yorktown, where Greene and Lafayette would trap them before Washington and Rochambeau, supported by the French fleet, arrived to deliver the coup de grâce.

Richard M. Ketchum illuminates, for the first time, the strategies and heroic personalities-American and French-that led to the surprise victory, only the second major battle the Americans would win in almost seven horrific years. Relying on good fortune, daring, and sheer determination never to give up, American and French fighters-many of whom walked from Newport and New York to Virginia-brought about that rarest of military operations: a race against time and distance, on land and at sea. Ketchum brings to life the gripping and inspirational story of how the rebels defeated the world\'s finest army against all odds.

Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill

Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage\'s redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside. Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms, the British decided to break out of town. American spies discovered their plans, and on the night of June 16, 1775, a thousand rebels marched out onto Charlestown peninsula and began digging a redoubt (not on Bunker Hill, which they had been ordered to fortify, but on Breeds Hill, well within cannon shot of the British batteries and ships). At daybreak, HMS Lively began firing. It was the opening round of a battle that saw unbelievable heroism and tragic blunders on both sides (a battle that marked a point of no return for England and her colonies), the beginning of all-out war.

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