For fifteen years between 1760 and 1775, before a drop of blood was
shed at Lexington and Concord, ideas were the weapons with which
Americans and Englishmen waged a revolution. Words of protest did
not become deeds of resistance until both sides came to realize
that only force would decide the issues that divided the empire.
How did the social, political, and intellectual developments of
the colonial period precipitate a shocking revolution by the
American colonists against Great Britain? What was the British view
of the situation in America? Who were the people involved (both
Whigs and Tories) in the American colonies and in England? What
were the issues that were brewing below the surface that made it
possible for a ragged band of patriots to defeat the strongest army
in the world? Was the ultimate separation of the American colonies
from England inevitable, or could it have been avoided?
Focusing on the period from the ascendance of George III to the
throne of Great Britain until the approval in the Continental
Congress of the Declaration of Independence, acclaimed biographer
Natalie S. Bober attempts to answer these, and other questions, as
she presents a bi-focal view of the events leading to the
Revolutionary War -- telling the story through the eyes of the
heroes and rebels involved on "both" sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Recognizing that biography is the human heart of history, she has
used engaging mini-biographies of the cast of British and American
characters. By taking her readers into the actual scenes, both in
America and England and revealing the human stories behind the
historic events, and by using original sources such as letters,
diaries, and speeches, she allowsthe characters who played a role
in the unfolding drama to step off the pages of the book and become
living people.
As she captures the drama, the wit, the politics, and the
manners of the generation that governed and lost the first British
Empire, all the while doing full justice to the cause of the
colonial patriots, she takes her readers on a provocative and
stimulating countdown to independence.
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