The Unknown American Revolution
The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
Gary B. Nash - Author
ISBN 9780143037200 | 544 pages | 30 May 2006 | Penguin | 8.26 x 5.23in | 18 - AND UP
"A unique and captivating interpretation of American independence, and one that is more democratic than traditional histories of the period." -Chicago Tribune
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In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today. List of Illustrations XIII 1. Roots of Radicalism Jailbreaks at Newark 2 2. Years of Insurgence, 1761-1766 The Crowd Finds Its Own Mind 45 3. Building Momentum, 1766-1774 "The Rising Spirit of the People" 91 4. Reaching the Climax, 1776-1778 Abolitionism Under War Clouds 151 5. The Dual Revolution, 1776-1780 Unalienable Rights for Whom? 210 6. Writing on the Clean Slate, 1776-1780 First Attempts 266 7. Radicalism at Floodtide, 1778-1781 Blood in the Streets 307 8. Taming the Revolution, 1780-1785 "Band of Brotherhood" 369 Epilogue: Sparks from the Altar of '76 The Dream Deferred 426 Acknowledgements 457 "Tightly though densely written, this expertly researched tome shakes the "stainless steel" history of the American Revolution to its core." —Publishers Weekly "You will never think about the Revolution in the same way." —Alfred F. Young, author of Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier "What Nash does in The Unknown American Revolution is dislodge the founding fathers to give the dynamism of urban craftsmen, slaves, ‘dockside tars,' and ‘club-wielding farmers' a more prominent place in the history of the movement." —The Boston Globe |
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