With this much-anticipated volume, he at last brings the story of the revolution to vivid life, with “surprising relevance” (Susan Dunn) for our modern era. These questions have intrigued Ellis―one of our most celebrated scholars of American history―throughout his entire career. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.įor more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance, and above all, its meaning.
Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S.
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