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Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, Holton, Woody,
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- ISBN
- 9781476750378
- Book Title
- Liberty Is Sweet : the Hidden History of the American Revolution
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Military / United States, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 34.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 800 Pages
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A "deeply researched and bracing retelling" (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans--women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a "spirited account" (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution ) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. "It is all one story," prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes. Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans--enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters--and on overlooked factors such as weather, North America's unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics. Liberty Is Sweet is a "must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation" (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin ), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turn--for example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the war--this majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1476750378
ISBN-13
9781476750378
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20050396378
Product Key Features
Book Title
Liberty Is Sweet : the Hidden History of the American Revolution
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Military / United States, United States / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
History
Number of Pages
800 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
34.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E209.H655 2021
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With Liberty Is Sweet , Woody Holton once again troubles the mythical narratives of our founding and the hagiography of our 'founders' to reveal the dynamic, complicated and multiracial pressures that led to the creation of the United States. This book rightly decenters the almost exclusively white revolutionary narratives that we've all been taught and instead makes visible the influence and agency of Black and Indigenous people as well as white women, who together played such a critical, if erased, role in creating this multiracial nation. This book unsettles the reader in the best possible way, and shows once again how the simplistic histories of our founding fail to explain the divided country in which we all live., In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Woody Holton astutely probes the causes, course, and consequences of our complex revolution. While carefully covering the usual leaders of the new nation, Liberty is Sweet also deftly explores the lives of common men and women, of diverse races, who displayed uncommon courage in pursuing their clashing visions of equality and freedom., Presents fresh appraisals of important developments based on lives and events long condemned to obscurity., Holton's exhaustive, masterfully written chronicle demonstrates that the Revolution was much more than a movement instigated by the political ideologies of a handful of elite, revered (although flawed) Founding Fathers against the British parliament and king. This book will be pivotal for scholars and requested by American history enthusiasts., Liberty is Sweet is a deeply researched and bracing retelling of the origins of the American Revolution. Holton details the central role that European hunger for Indian land-- and the differing views on Indian policy between British officials and Anglo-American colonists----played in the crises that led to revolution. This persuasive and necessary account will challenge all who think they know exactly why the 13 colonies opted to leave Great Britain.
Lccn
2020-049257
Dewey Decimal
973.308
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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