The Radicalism of the American Revolution : Pulitzer Prize Winner (Paperback)

from RandyStafford

The American Revolution was a failure. That is not the opinion of Wood. It was the opinion of the Revolutionaries. Looking back on what they had wrought, they were despondent over the gap between t...

from Angelic55blonde

After reading this book it is no wonder that it won the Pulitzer Prize. The author did extensive research and his writing style made it interesting and easy to read. The book begins with a backgrou...

from Othemts

A well-researched and engaging historical work in which the great social revolutions (as opposed to the political one) of the American War for Independence are analyzed. The people of the time made...

from Katahdin85

An excellent review of the politics behind America's Revolutionary War and how things spun out of control to the point where later in their lives, Adamsm=, Washington, Franklin, Jefferson et al. ca...

from dougwood57

Gordon Wood's qualifications as an historian of American colonial and revolutionary history rank with Edmund Morgan [The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (The Chicago History of American Civilization...