Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier

In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution.

Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veteransâ€™ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	0679761853_used
Color	Cream
IsAdultProduct
Height	8
Length	5.19
Weight	0.881849048
Width	0.98
ReleaseDate	2005-03-08
NumberOfItems	1

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier