American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution (Audiobook)

from HistReader

 Written in Mr. Unger's usual fashion - fast paced, and nowhere near deficient in information or historical importance. He pulls no punches and lays out the events surrounding the Boston Tea Party and the local politics of Boston and America. He does make passing comparisons between the colonial ...

from ChewDigest

Quick and easy to follow.

from nbmars

This is the real (as opposed to commonly taught) story of the Boston Tea Party and the network of greed, smuggling, bribery, and personal vendettas that provided the impetus to the American Revolution. Truly, if you want to believe in the sanctity of the pursuit of liberty and freedom from tyrann...

from Judiex

When I studied American History in school, I remember learning how the Americans were so upset with the British Government trying to make them pay a tax on the tea purchased from England that in December 1773 a group of them dressed like Indians boarded the ships and tossed the tea into the ocean...

from LisCarey

This is a clear, highly readable, and fascinating account of the Boston Tea Party, what led up to it, what followed, and how this became the spark that created the American Revolution.Many things have been said and repeated about the Tea Party that simply aren't true. It wasn't about the tax on t...