the American Revolution for Busy People: Essential Guide to War, Ideas, and People Who Built a Nation

Everything you think you know about the American Revolution is half right. Here is the real story, fast. Wise founders, a clean fight against a tyrant king, a tidy birth of freedom. That is the version on the holiday calendar, and it is wrong in almost every part. The real Revolution was longer, stranger, and far more interesting, and this is the book that finally makes it click. Written for the busy, curious reader who wants the whole picture without a thousand-page tome, it shows you the Revolution as the three things it actually was, all at once. It was a war, mostly lost on the battlefield and won by endurance and the French navy. It was an argument, a bitter civil quarrel over rights and power that split families and towns. And it was a set of ideas so radical they would go on to remake the world. Inside this book: - What actually sparked the Revolution, from the war debt to the Boston Tea Party- How the war was won and very nearly lost, from the disaster of 1776 to Yorktown- Which ideas mattered, and where Locke, Paine, and Jefferson got them- Who the founders really were behind the marble, flaws and all- The people the monuments leave out: the enslaved, women, Native nations, and the Loyalists- Why 1776 still shapes the arguments Americans are having today > Finish it, and you will understand the American Revolution better than almost anyone you know.

Pagina's: 233, Paperback, Independently published