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The cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783, Joseph J Ellis

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The cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783, Joseph J Ellis

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-637)

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The cause

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Joseph J Ellis

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction

Sub title

the American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783

Summary

This book rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists' consent. Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of "prudent" revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts our land

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American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783

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