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1775: A Good Year for Revolution
1775 A Good Year for Revolution
Author: Kevin Phillips
What if the year we have long commemorated as America?s defining moment was in fact misleading? What if the real events that signaled the historic shift from colony to country took place earlier, and that the true story of our nation?s emergence reveals a more complicated?and divisive?birth process?In this major new work, iconoclastic historian ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781469203171
ISBN-10: 1469203170
Publication Date: 11/27/2012
Edition: Library
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I made it most of the way through, but I felt that I was trudging, at times. He's a writer that holds me (ever since "The Emerging Republican Majority", written (gasp!) 40 years ago (he's 72 now). At times, it's like he's writing about a political campaign, since he can't stop dividing and subdividing social and geographical groups, he's obviously frustrated by the lack of data compared to what he crunched back in the Nixon days. It was a fascinating time, and probably the best historical information on the time leading up to the war that I have read.


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