Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

by Jack N. Rakove

Book Overview

In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become revolutionary by ambition, but when events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into a crisis that moved, in a matter of months, from protest to war.

In this remarkable book, the historian Jack...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547521871
• ISBN13: 9780547521879
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 487 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

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