THE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY-SIX: The Story of the American Revolution as Told By Its Participants - Hardcover

COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE ET AL. (EDS.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1121297730 ISBN 13: 9781121297739

Publisher: Publisher, 1967

Synopsis

Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer—the participants themselves—and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers.Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Publisher
• Publication date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1121297730
• ISBN 13: 9781121297739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1348