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Title: Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer ISBN: 0195098315 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.61
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most readable history books
Comment: I was "forced" to read this book for an American colonial history class in college some years ago. I am so very, very grateful that it was assigned. It is one of the best history -- nay, one of the best *books* I have ever read.
The book is meticulously researched and extremely thorough. Hackett's history of Paul Revere, British General Gage and all the surrounding times, people, places and events pulls together what was happening just prior to the Revolutionary War.
Not only is it wonderful as a history book, but it's a fun and interesting read; if all history books were so interesting, fewer history students would be bored.
Hackett takes Revere's ride, which has reached near-mythical proportions in America, and makes it real without losing any of the wonder of the event itself. An incredible read.
Rating: 5
Summary: An informative read....
Comment: As I read the introduction to the book, I found myself wide-eyed that I may be wrong about my knowledge of Paul Revere. The folklore of his midnight ride (and the song) has strongly influenced what I thought. Fischer addresses that, then writes a great narrative to show you the true patriot.
First, I knew that Paul Revere rode to warn the colonists and Dawes rode as well. What I did not know was that they were part of a vast communication network set up by Paul Revere and his colleagues. The reader sees how successful this is (even with Revere being captured) through the explanation and maps of the troop movements.
The book is not a biography about Paul Revere though it does go into some detail about him. This book is primarily about the incidents leading up to the ride and the incidents immediately after. The reader will hear about all the things going on within that span of months. Paul Revere's perspective is not the only one covered.
I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in American history. You will finish the book feeling enlightened.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well Worth the Time and Well Written History
Comment: Anyone interested in American history must read this book. The title of this book is modest for it is about much more than Paul Revere's famous ride: it is a well-documented but lively history of the numerous events leading up to and including the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Fischer uses both Paul Revere and General Thomas Gage as examples to highlight the differences between the attitudes of the Colonists and the British. I had not fully appreciated the degree of the animosity between them until I read this book. I also gained a sense that the tensions between the British troops'the 'Regulars''and the Colonists were quite high before April 19th, and that something was bound to erupt. The British confiscating gunpowder from the Powder House on Quarry Hill (September 1, 1774), the Portsmouth Alarm (December 13-19), and the Salem Alarm (February 26-27) were all preludes to the Battle of that fateful day of April 19th. Fischer also makes an excellent case that the Revolutionary movement was very well organized. Revere succeeded in alarming the country not by randomly waking the countryside but by methodically rousing the militia leaders of the various villages and towns. For much of the book, Paul Revere serves as a principal character, which is an appropriate for this story: he had the knack, somehow, of always ending up smack in the middle of the important events of the day. Shortly before the 'first shot' at Lexington, for example, some of the Regulars in the front of the column may have very well seen Revere and John Lowell carrying across the Lexington Common through the ranks of Captain John Parker's militia a wooden trunk owned by John Hancock with important papers that could have been used to indict various leaders of the Revolutionary cause.
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Title: Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot ISBN: 0393320561 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Shoemaker and the Tea Party : Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred F. Young ISBN: 0807054054 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn ISBN: 0674443020 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America by Joy Day Buel, Richard Buel ISBN: 0393312100 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum ISBN: 0805061231 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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