The use of female sideline reporters is the fastest-growing new aspect of televised broadcasts of professional and college football. Names like Suzy Kolber, Erin Andrews, and Andrea Kremer are now as well known as any of the men in the booth. In recent years women have been sports columnists and reporters, talk-show hosts, even coaches and team administrators. And yet there has never been a book about this phenomenon.Former ESPN news anchor Betsy Ross fills this void with Playing B...

FightFight II: To Fight AgainFight III: To Fight BackFight IV: To Fight OnLeslie, John, Kent, Ashley, and the others strive to start a new life after leaving the Army life behind. The FIGHT series shows an inside look to what many veterans face daily as they return to what they used to know and their families. Not all veterans struggle, but many do without knowing how to describe what it is they're thinking or feeling. FIGHT gives a voice to those who feel they...

Tells the legend of Betsy Ross, a Patriot and seamstress who may have sewn America's first flag.

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In 1776 Philadelphia, just as the American Revolutionary war is breaking out, Betsy Ross wonders what really happened the night of the munitions warehouse explosion that killed her beloved husband John Ross. Was it an accident or was the warehouse fire intentionally set?When the authorities refuse to investigate the crime, Betsy vows to uncover who was responsible for her husband's death, but soon finds herself drawn into Philadelphia's war-time network of spies and double spies wo...

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That’s up for debate, but Who Was Betsy Ross? tells the story of a fierce patriot who certainly hel...

The story behind the legend...Long before Betsy Ross became a national icon for making the first US flag, she was a quiet Quaker girl swept up against her will by events leading to the American Revolution.Philadelphia, 1770. Eighteen-year-old Betsy Griscom falls in love with a man her parents can't accept-non-Quaker John Ross, whose family has strong ties to powerful colonial government offices. Despite Betsy's best intentions to stay within the safety of her Quake...

A "first-rate" biography of the seamstress and patriot and a vivid portrait of life in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia: "Authoritative and engrossing" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Finalist, Cundill Prize in HistoryBetsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Drawing on new sources and ...

"A nation thrills, a nation bleeds,A nation follows where it leads,And every man is proud to yieldHis life upon a crimson fieldFor Betsy's battle flag.” – Minna Irving, “Betsy’s Battle Flag”A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important...

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That’s up for debate, but Who Was Betsy Ross? tells the story of a fierce patriot who certainly hel...

Beginning with her own story of coping with her husband's suicide, Eleanora Betsy Ross takes the reader beyond the silence and shame often associated with suicide and shatters some of the most pervasive myths surrounding this common tragedy. By examining the dynamics of after-suicide bereavement and using dozens of real-life case histories, After Suicide offers hope for the survivors and helps them maintain their sanity and poise during this most difficult time.Backed by years of research ...

THESE COLORS NEVER RAN. . . AND NEVER WILL.This is the engrossing story of the American flag and its designer and creator, one Miss Elizabeth Griscom, or Betsy Ross. It’s a story that is inspirational, motivational, and aspirational. It represents the best of man in the darkest of times, when freedom was but a word, almost lost, yet fought for and achieved by men and women who’ve their all and lit the torch that would lead the world ever-after.In Betsy Ross and the ...