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The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America Hardback - 2005

by Gary B. Nash

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In the rows of august marble busts that commemorate the American Revolution, we have lost sight of the true radical spirit of the longest and most disruptive upheaval in our history, argues distinguished American historian Gary B. Nash. In this brilliant reexamination of the swirl of ideology, grievance, outrage, and hope that animated the revolutionary decades, Nash demonstrates that though the Founding Fathers led the charge, the energy to raise a revolt emerged from all classes and races of American society. Millennialist preachers and enslaved Africans, frontier mystics and dockside tars, disgruntled women and aggrieved Indians all had their own fierce vision of what an independent America could and should be. According to Nash, the American Revolution was truly a people's revolution, a civil war at home as well as an armed insurrection against colonial control.In this ideal companion volume to Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, Nash re-creates the heady and often-violent excitement that convulsed American lives during the last three decades of the eighteenth century and presents a unique look at the struggle to create a new country.

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"A unique and captivating interpretation of American independence, and one that is more democratic than traditional histories of the period." -Chicago TribuneIn this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.

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In the rows of august marble busts that commemorate the American Revolution, we have lost sight of the true radical spirit of the longest and most disruptive upheaval in our history, argues distinguished American historian Gary B. Nash. In this brilliant reexamination of the swirl of ideology, grievance, outrage, and hope that animated the revolutionary decades, Nash demonstrates that though the Founding Fathers led the charge, the energy to raise a revolt emerged from all classes and races of American society. Millennialist preachers and enslaved Africans, frontier mystics and dockside tars, disgruntled women and aggrieved Indiansaall had their own fierce vision of what an independent America could and should be. According to Nash, the American Revolution was truly a peopleas revolution, a civil war at home as well as an armed insurrection against colonial control.

In this ideal companion volume to Howard Zinnas classic "A Peopleas History of the United States," Nash re-creates the heady and often-violent excitement that convulsed American lives during the last three decades of the eighteenth century and presents a unique look at the struggle to create a new country.

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  • Title The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
  • Author Gary B. Nash
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking Books, New York
  • Publication date 2005-06-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780670034208 / 0670034207
  • Weight 1.74 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.42 x 1.73 in (24.18 x 16.31 x 4.39 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, United States - History - Revolution,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004061199
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.3

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You will never think about the Revolution in the same way. (Alfred F. Young, author of Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier)

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