Woody Holton

Liberty Is Sweet (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden History of the American Revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A "deeply researched and bracing retelling" (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americanswomen, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a "spirited account" (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. "It is all one story," prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes. Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americansenslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissentersand on overlooked factors such as weather, North America's unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics. Liberty Is Sweet is a "must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation" (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turnfor example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the warthis majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476750392
• Artikelnr.: 61108635

Autorenporträt

Woody Holton is McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches and researches Early American history, especially the American Revolution, with a focus on economic history and on African Americans, Native Americans, and women. He is the author of several previous books, including Abigail Adams, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize; his second book, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, was a finalist for the National Book Award.