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The Cause - The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Hardcover)
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The Cause - The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Hardcover)
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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. With The Cause, 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
America. Written with flair and drama, The Cause brings together a
cast of familiar and forgotten characters who, taken together,
challenge the story we have long told ourselves about our origins
as a people and a nation.
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