The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
ISBN:
9780349110035 (0349110034)
Edition language: English
A fascinating and seemingly unique view of the American war of independence by an American. The perspective is about as trans-Atlantic as I've ever read, and that's a little shocking given that it is a book by an American for Americans. It is altogether unique among the histories I have read for h...
Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe American Revolution is so often romanticized and distorted by the political needs of Government and Policy that its reality, a ragtag rebellion of seditious wealthy men subsidized by the long-term enemies of England, gets completely lost. Tuchman, in her trademark popular-na...