Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Thomas James Fleming was an historian and historical novelist, with a special interest in the American Revolution. He was born in 1927 in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of a World War I hero who was a leader in Jersey City politics for three decades. Before her marriage, his mother, Katherine Dolan Fleming, was a teacher in the Jersey City Public School System. After graduating from St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, Fleming spent a year in the United States Navy. He received a Bachelor's degree, with honors, from Fordham University in 1950. After brief stints as a newspaperman and magazine editor, he became a full-time writer in 1960. His first history book, Now We Are Enemies, an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, was published that same year. It was a best-seller, reviewed in more than 75 newspapers and featured as a main selection of the Literary Guild. Fleming published books about various events and figures of the Revolutionary era. He also wrote about other periods of American history and wrote over a dozen well-received novels set against various historical backgrounds. He said, "I never wanted to be an Irish American writer, my whole idea was to get across that bridge and be an American writer". Fleming died at his home in New York City on July 23, 2017, at the age of 90.
Series
Books
What America Was Really Like in 1776
2012
The Great Divide
The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
2014
Storms Over the Presidency
2016
Everybody's Revolution
2006
Conquerors of the Sky
2003
When This Cruel War Is Over
A Novel of the Civil War
2001
First in Their Hearts
The Life of George Washington
1967
Stories of the American Revolution
2018
What If? 2
Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
2000
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
2009
My Days with Harry Truman
2011
Time and Tide
1987
The Louisiana Purchase
2007
The Wages of Fame
1998
Ben Franklin
Inventing America
2007
Washington's Secret War
The Hidden History of Valley Forge
2005
Duel
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, And The Future Of America
1999
President Truman
2012
Remember the Morning
2011
A Passionate Girl
1979
First Stroke
Lexington and Concord
2005
1776
1975
The New Dealers' War
FDR and the War Within World War II
2001
Liberty! The American Revolution
1997
The Strategy of Victory
How General George Washington Won the American Revolution
2017
Affectionately Yours, George Washington
2014
Over There
1992
Dreams of Glory
1983
The Man from Monticello
1969
Beat the Last Drum
The Siege of Yorktown 1781
1963
Bunker Hill
2015
Benjamin Franklin
An Intimate Portrait
2005
One Small Candle
The Pilgrims' First Year in America
1964
The Perils of Peace
America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown
2007
Loyalties
A Novel of World War II
1994
The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee
2006
The Illusion of Victory
America in World War I
2003
A Disease in the Public Mind
A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
2013
The Spoils of War
1985
Yorktown
2014
Now We Are Enemies
The Story of Bunker Hill
1960
Young Jefferson
2015
Verdicts of History
2016
Truman
2014
The Officers' Wives
1981
Liberty Tavern
1976
