A groundbreaking account of the American Revolution—from the bestselling author of American Dynasty
In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by debunking the myth that 1776 was the struggle's watershed year. Focusing on the great battles and events of 1775, Phillips surveys the political climate, economic structures, and military preparations of the crucial year that was the harbinger of revolution, tackling the eighteenth century with the same skill and perception he has shown in analyzing contemporary politics and economics. The result is a dramatic account brimming with original insights about the country we eventually became.
A groundbreaking account of the American Revolution—from the bestselling author of American Dynasty
In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by debunking the myth that 1776 was the struggle's watershed year. Focusing on the great battles and events of 1775, Phillips surveys the political climate, economic structures, and military preparations of the crucial year that was the harbinger of revolution, tackling the eighteenth century with the same skill and perception he has shown in analyzing contemporary politics and economics. The result is a dramatic account brimming with original insights about the country we eventually became.
Kevin Phillips has been a political and an economic commentator for four decades. 1775 is his fifteenth book. He lives in Connecticut.
"A feisty, fearless, edgy book, blissfully bereft of academic
jargon, propelled by the energy of an author with the bit in his
teeth.”--The New York Times Book Review
“In his amassing of mountains of facts from numerous monographs,
Phillips has tried to do what most academic historians these days
have not been much interested in doing—bring together all the
meticulous research that has been going on for decades and turn it
into a comprehensive and readable book designed for general
readers. Much of what Phillips has written is clear and free of
jargon. His assessments of the various military situations,
especially those faced by the British, are always realistically
based, and his judgments of what was possible and what was not
possible for the British to do are always sound.”--The New York
Review of Books
"Enthralling."--Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review)
"Impressively authoritative...[A] deeply researched, meticulously
argued, multidimensional history."--Kirkus (starred review)
"A solid, well-argued, and informative re-examination of our
beginnings as a nation-state."--Booklist
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