Now for the older one. Some (many?) of the folks on here might recognize the dude that wrote it, some may have even read it. Apparently, as I found them in my searches for info on the book, there are paperback copies of it so perhaps somewhere in the halls of academia American History might still be taught?
Ratty cover, perhaps not surprising given it's 200+/- years old?
Title page, and they knew how to write a title back then, eh?
And the Introduction:
I believe, given the current situation of the Country, and the impetus of this thread, that perhaps it is time for my occasional rereading of the words of the good Colonel?