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“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field,

which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over

the last three decades but never loses contact with the older,

classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two

hundred years.”

-Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers

A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness

that gave birth to the American republic.

When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the

United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution.

He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United

States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of

the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our

commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of

ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era.

Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans

that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the

world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to

whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have

had.

No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant

colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western

civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three

decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four

million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like

the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply

as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be

drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to

be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned.

How did this great revolution come about? What was its character?

What were its consequences? These are the questions this short

history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and

enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood’s mastery of his

subject, and of the historian’s craft.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Gordon S. Wood is a professor of history at

Brown University. In 1970 his book The Creation of the American

Republic 1776–1787 was nominated for the National Book Award

and received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes. In 1993 he

won the Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American

Revolution. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Remarkable, invaluable. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

Book World

Wood is the preeminent historian of the Revolution. . . . Here .

. . he manages to boil down to its essence this crucial period in

the countrys history without in the process reducing it to History

Lite. . . . His account of the emergence and development of

rank-and-file political opinion is especially provocative and

informative, but then so is just about everything else in this

remarkable, invaluable book. The Washington Post Book World

An elegant, concise and lucid summary of the Revolutions

origins, the war itself, and the social and political changes

wrought by the struggle for American independence. The Wall Street

Journal

This slim book tells a big story: one that invites the reader to

contemplate the relationships between liberty, power, rights and

the unpredictable outcomes of human action. Los Angeles Times Book

Review

An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field,

which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over

the last three decades but never loses contact with the older,

classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two

hundred years. Joseph Ellis -- Review

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“Remarkable, invaluable.” —Jonathan Yardley,

The Washington

Post Book World

“Wood is the preeminent historian of the Revolution. . . . Here . .

. he manages to boil down to its essence this crucial period in the

country’s history without in the process reducing it to History

Lite. . . . His account of the emergence and development of

rank-and-file political opinion is especially provocative and

informative, but then so is just about everything else in this

remarkable, invaluable book.” —

The Washington Post Book

World

“An elegant, concise and lucid summary of the Revolution’s origins,

the war itself, and the social and political changes wrought by the

struggle for American independence.” —

The Wall Street

Journal

“This slim book tells a big story: one that invites the reader to

contemplate the relationships between liberty, power, rights and

the unpredictable outcomes of human action.” —

Los Angeles Times

Book Review

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field,

which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over

the last three decades but never loses contact with the older,

classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two

hundred years.” —Joseph Ellis