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The Unknown American Revolution : The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
The Unknown American Revolution The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America Author:Gary B. Nash In the rows of august marble busts that commemorate the American Revolution, we have lost sight of the true radical spirit of the longest and most disruptive upheaval in our history, argues distinguished American historian Gary B. Nash. In this brilliant reexamination of the swirl of ideology, grievance, outrage, and hope that animated the r... more »evolutionary decades, Nash demonstrates that though the Founding Fathers led the charge, the energy to raise a revolt emerged from all classes and races of American society. Millennialist preachers and enslaved Africans, frontier mystics and dockside tars, disgruntled women and aggrieved Indiansall had their own fierce vision of what an independent America could and should be. According to Nash, the American Revolution was truly a peoples revolution, a civil war at home as well as an armed insurrection against colonial control. In this ideal companion volume to Howard Zinns classic A Peoples History of the United States, Nash re-creates the heady and often-violent excitement that convulsed American lives during the last three decades of the eighteenth century and presents a unique look at the struggle to create a new country.« less
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Lots of information about pre-revolutionary revolts against the establishment. Best read if you accept the proposition that the rich and powerful always try to keep others down.