Ethan Allen

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 16, 2011

Willard Sterne Randall tells about the life of the largely unexamined Founding Father Ethan Allen. His new biography, Ethan Allen: His Life and Times, chronicles Allen’s upward struggle from precocious adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution. The book also examines his time as British prisoner-of-war and his role in gaining Vermont statehood.

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