Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

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Product Details
Price
$28.95  $26.92
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
Pages
640
Dimensions
6.4 X 9.4 X 1.6 inches | 2.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780393245547

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About the Author
Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World, Amsterdam, and Revolution Song, and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Cumberland, Maryland.
Reviews
How did the teenaged daughter of a British officer view the American Revolution, from behind enemy lines in New York? What did that contest mean to a shrewd, contemplative Iroquois warrior? Russell Shorto has emerged from the archives with a bold, largely neglected cast. He has set them free in a rich, prismatic narrative, as intensely vivid as it is seamlessly constructed.--Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Witches: Salem, 1692
With symphonic sweep, cinematic detail and compelling, superbly researched real-life characters, Shorto shows how our struggle for freedom began and why it remains so sadly unfinished. If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read.--Howard Fineman, NBC News analyst and author of The Thirteen American Arguments
Amazing: Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding.--Charles C. Mann, author of 1491
An engaging, readable and surprisingly complete account of the American Revolution. A tour de force.--Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution
An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.
Russell Shorto's engaging new book appears at a moment when basic concepts of rights and equality are routinely disparaged. As if in response to our troubled political culture, he invites readers to return to the American Revolution to understand better how an 18th-century commitment to freedom took root and became a fundamental, unifying value in our nation's history. . . . [Shorto has] produced a compelling work that reads almost like a good detective story. . . . Shorto deserves praise for reminding us of the complexity of freedom's claims.--Brian Greer