NHS, in collaboration with Salve Regina University, will host Gerald M. Carbone, author of Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), for a 6pm program on Thursday October 21, 2010.
Without Rhode Island-born general Nathanael Greene there would be no United States of America, for without Greene America would have lost the Revolution. Despite Greene’s key role in the founding of the United States his story is now little known, even in his native state of Rhode Island.
Biographer Gerald M. Carbone, a former journalist for the Providence Journal, will share Greene’s story, how he rose from being the bookish, asthmatic, gimp-kneed son of a Quaker to a general of genius who saved the American Revolution. Carbone will also discuss the Battle of Rhode Island, where Greene commanded the First Rhode Island Regiment comprised of freed slaves in repulsing British and Hessian attacks on the American lines at Portsmouth.
The Washington Times calls this biography, “engaging.” Publisher’s Weekly describes his work as a, “lively chronicle” and “well-researched.” He received two of American journalism’s most prestigious prizes—The American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. He also authored Washington: Lessons in Leadership (Palgrave Macmillan 2009).
This program will take place at 6pm at Salve Regina University’s Antone Academic Center (formerly Mercy Hall), located at the corner of Leroy and Lawrence Avenues, in the DiStefano Lecture Hall which is just inside the doorway to the right. Parking is available across the street in the Wakehurst parking lot, accessed on both Leroy and Lawrence Avenues. Admission is free; donations are welcome. A book signing will follow the hour-long lecture.