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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s founding struggle—expanding on the landmark, six-part PBS series
“From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen not to be…
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One of the highlights of the Fall 2025 American television season was PBS’s twelve-hour examination of the American revolution, from its “in-house” documentarian, Ken Burns. As usual with such projects, there was an accompanying book, and this is it.
As illuminating and entertaining as the TV series was, the book provides more context, more explanation and, frankly, more time to pause and digest the wealth of information contained in the show.
There are two underlying messages here. First, the American revolution was more the outgrowth of a larger world-wide clashing of empires than a strictly home-grown dispute. Second,…
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