Revolutionaries
Author: Rakove, Jack
ISBN: 9780099551867
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jul 2011
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliant and original new history of the American Revolution, told through the lives and minds of the men who led it, doing for the United States what Linda Colley's ground-breaking Britons did for our own country.
In this remarkable book, Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating insights: Washington as a flawed tactician but expert manager; Jack Laurens as a slave trader's son who developed a plan to recruit black soldiers; Jefferson as a powerful critic of Europe's social order but a voracious consumer of its culture.
Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, Revolutionaries uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding.
By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.
ISBN: 9780099551867
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jul 2011
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliant and original new history of the American Revolution, told through the lives and minds of the men who led it, doing for the United States what Linda Colley's ground-breaking Britons did for our own country.
In this remarkable book, Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating insights: Washington as a flawed tactician but expert manager; Jack Laurens as a slave trader's son who developed a plan to recruit black soldiers; Jefferson as a powerful critic of Europe's social order but a voracious consumer of its culture.
Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, Revolutionaries uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding.
By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.
