A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence - Paperback

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A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence - Paperback

A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence - Paperback

by Ray Raphael
$45.90
$45.90

Book Overview

"The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read." --Howard Zinn

Upon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has served as a revelation.

A People's History of the American Revolution draws upon diaries, personal letters, and other Revolutionary-era treasures, weaving a thrilling "you are there" narrative--"a tapestry that uses individual experiences to illustrate the larger stories". Raphael shifts the focus away from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the men and boys who did the fighting (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

This "remarkable perspective on a familiar part of American history" helps us appreciate more fully the incredible diversity of the American Revolution (Kirkus Reviews).

"Through letters, diaries, and other accounts, Raphael shows these individuals--white women and men of the farming and laboring classes, free and enslaved African Americans, Native Americans, loyalists, and religious pacifists--acting for or against the Revolution and enduring a war that compounded the difficulties of everyday life." --Library Journal

"A tour de force . . . Ray Raphael has probably altered the way in which future historians will see events." --The Sunday Times
ISBN9781620971833
Author Ray Raphael
PublisherNew Press
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Ray Raphael's ten books on the Founding Era include A People's History of the American Revolution (2001), Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past (2004), Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive (2012), and Constitutional Myths (2013). Having taught at Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods, he is currently developing teaching tools for the Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) and serving as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Revolution. He lives in Northern California.

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