![]() ![]() As is always the case with Ellis, he is brilliant at short takes - events, individuals. (from) a master storyteller known for perceptive detailing. “With is characteristically graceful prose, Ellis offers a short, straightforward history of a critical decade in the nation’s youth. ![]() ![]() With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 17, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of “prudent” revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts our land. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction.Īt the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radial change without their colonists’ consent. THE CAUSE - THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 1773-1783 ![]()
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