Praise for Crossing Point

“Crossing Point is engaging as a work of history, where realistic detail grounds and girds the story; but it’s a work of imaginative grace and vision as well. James Glickman is a gifted writer, and he makes the American War [of] Independence credible, physically and emotionally real. I don’t think many of us know this war as well as we think, especially the story of black participation. Glickman has provided a genuine service here, imagining our history for us, summoning the warp and woof of daily life in a pressured time. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to come closer to the wellsprings of the American story, our conflicted and fiery origins.

—Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and The Passages of H.M.

“I was quite won over by the skill with which [Glickman] humanizes the abstractions of military history—the relations of officers and men, rebels and loyalists, blacks and whites, slaves and masters, and makes the incredible horrors of war credible.”

—C. Vann Woodward, author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow and
editor of The Oxford History of the United States