Thomas Fleming (historian)


Thomas James Fleming was an American historian and historical novelist and the author of over forty nonfiction and fiction titles. His work reflects a particular interest on the American Revolution, with titles such as Liberty! The American Revolution And The Future Of America, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the History of America and Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge.

Biography

A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Fleming graduated from St. Peter's Preparatory School and from Fordham University in 1950, serving a year in the United States Navy before he started college.
Fleming served as president of the Society of American Historians and the PEN American Center. Fleming also spent ten years as chairman of the New York American Revolution Round Table and was an Honorary Member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati since 1975. He lived in New York with his wife, Alice, a writer of books for young people.
Fleming published books about various events and figures of the Revolutionary era. He also wrote about other periods of American history, and wrote over a dozen well-received novels set against various historical backgrounds. He said, "I never wanted to be an Irish-American writer, my whole idea was to get across that bridge and be an American writer".
Fleming died at his home in New York City on July 23, 2017 at the age of 90.

Histories

  • Now We Are Enemies
  • Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown 1781
  • One Small Candle: The Pilgrims' First Year In America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1963.
  • The Perils of Peace: America’s Struggle to Survive After Yorktown
  • The Irish-American Chronicle
  • The New Dealers’ War: FDR and the War Within World War II
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  • Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America
  • Liberty! The American Revolution
  • The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson
  • The Man Who Dared the Lightning: A New Look at Benjamin Franklin
  • Benjamin Franklin: A Life in His Own Words
  • The Forgotten Victory: The Battle for New Jersey–1780
  • The First Stroke: Lexington, Concord, and the Beginning of the American Revolution
  • West Point: The Men and Times of the U.S. Military Academy
  • 1776: Year of Illusions
  • The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
  • George Washington: The General from Profiles in Leadership
  • The Strategy of Victory: How George Washington Won the American Revolution. New York: Da Capo Press, 2017.. OCLC 1008913772

    Novels

  • Liberty Tavern
  • Dreams of Glory
  • The Spoils of War
  • Rulers of the City
  • A Passionate Girl
  • Promises to Keep
  • Remember The Morning
  • The Wages of Fame
  • The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee
  • The Officers’ Wives
  • Time and Tide
  • Over There
  • Loyalties: A Novel of World War II
  • All Good Men
  • The God of Love