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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
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“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.