Book description
* Rather than simply celebrating the 'triumph of liberty', Jack Rakove's new history of the American Revolution will stress the ambiguous legacy of the revolution, a legacy that ranges from liberty and democracy to slavery.
* Rakove will explore the complex and contested genesis of the United States, showing how…
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1 author picked Revolutionaries as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Stanford history professor Jack Rakove is one of the most original thinkers on American history, and this book is a richly textured dramatic portrait of the lives and contributions of the Founding Fathers. It’s fast-paced, colorful, and novelistic. It’s hard to set it aside.
From Joel's list on the American Revolution from an American historian.
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