…before the so-called Founding Fathers…

Book review:

The Unknown American Revolution:

The Unruly Birth of Democracy

and the Struggle to Create America

by Gary B. Nash

New York: The Penguin Group: Viking, 2005

The Unknown American Revolution is chock full of facts you probably don’t know about the evolution of the revolutionary spirit in the American colonies.

Here’s a hint: the leather-apron men and other lower class members of what the elites contemptuously termed “the mob” had a lot to do with it.

Gary Nash gives a book full of details demonstrating that there was a whole lot happening in the decades before the shoot-out on Lexington Green and the wrangling in Philadelphia in June and July of 1776.

There were a whole lot more folks—men and women—involved in addition to the so-called Founding Fathers.

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Book review: The Comanche Empire

it’s the other story of the American West…

by Pekka Hämäläinen

click here

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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,

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