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New York Times bestseller Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation

National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson

New York Times bestseller His Excellency: George Washington

“The colonists didn’t describe their war for independence as the American Revolution, Pulitzer winner Ellis points out in the preface to this richly detailed, multi-voiced history. The term they used was “The Cause” - “a conveniently ambiguous label that provided a verbal canopy under which a diverse variety of political and regional persuasions could coexist.” Ellis skillfully charts divergent interests . . .This expert account highlights the “improvisational” nature of America’s founding.”  Publishers Weekly

Hardcover Available

September 21, 2021

Published by Liveright,

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Photo: Dorothy Greco

A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we know it.