American Revolution

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The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous lifejourney of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot "the colossus of independence," as Thom...

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volumea finalist for the Pulitzer Prizeoffers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first pres...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER?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 magnifi...

Paul Revere's midnight ride is a legendary event in American history yet it has been largely ignored by scholars, and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious study of this event what led to it, what really happened, what followed uncovering a truth more remarkable than the ...