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Title: The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord by Ray Raphael ISBN: 1-56584-815-2 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: A very intriguing account of the revolution before the revolution. This is the story of the many small risings and the build up of the local militias and opposition to Britain before Lexington and Concord. An unknown history that is rarely explained in history books. Very fascinating reading this book will be of interest to those scholars of the American revolution and America in general. A much needed addition to understanding the history of the 'shot heard round the world' that brought about American independence and thus the first independent colony from Europe.
Seth J. Frantzman
Rating: 5
Summary: The First American Revolution
Comment: My brother loaned me his copy. We frequently exchange books, but when he asked for the return of this particular one, I identified it among the others as "The Great Book." (This was a spontaneous utterance made during a walk, but I thought about it for a long time afterwards, why I had so described it.)
This is a powerful, disturbing, and beautiful work. It is the sort of book that, after reading a few paragraphs and even sometimes a single sentence, you find yourself with your eyes off the page, wondering at what you have just read, trying to picture it, trying to understand how such remarkable people could have given birth to such a disappointing nation.
There is a spirit somewhere here, I guess, that we should have inherited. I don't know that we have.
Rating: 5
Summary: It all started with the people....
Comment: A well-researched and finely written account of the people's revolution in Massachusetts in the years before Lexington and Concord.
Raphael recounts the people's rising anger towards the Crown because of the Massachusetts Goverment Act (1774). This act, which allowed the King to appoint officials instead of allowing the citizens to elect them, turned the people against the Crown. Through acts of civil disobedience, illegal conventions, and threats against appointed officials, the people of Massachusetts effectively took control of their government from the British.
This is a great book that focuses on an aspect of the Revolution that is usually ignored or lightly touched on in any History class or book about the Revolution. It shows that the Revolution was started and won by ALL the people of America, not just Washington, Jefferson, Adams, etc.....
Highly Recommended!
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Title: A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence by Ray Raphael ISBN: 0060004401 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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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: Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards ISBN: 0812236696 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America by Bruce Shapiro, Pete Hamill ISBN: 1560254335 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press / Nation Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill by Richard M. Ketchum ISBN: 0805060995 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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