
1774
The Long Year of Revolution
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Narrated by:
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Kimberly Farr
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Mary Beth Norton
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2020
Mary Beth Norton keenly focuses on the 16 months during which the traditional loyalists to King George III began their discordant "discussions" that led to their acceptance of the inevitability of war against the British Empire and to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April 1775.
Drawing extensively on pamphlets, newspapers, and personal correspondence, Norton reconstructs colonial political discourse as it happened, showing the vigorous campaign mounted by conservatives criticizing congressional actions. But by then it was too late. In early 1775, governors throughout the colonies informed colonial officials in London that they were unable to thwart the increasing power of the committees and their allied provincial congresses. Although the Declaration of Independence would not be formally adopted until July 1776, Americans, even before the outbreak of war in April 1775, had in effect "declared independence" by obeying the decrees of their new provincial governments rather than colonial officials.
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Critic reviews
"Deeply researched...Norton makes a good case for considering 1774 and not 1776 to be the foundational year of the new republic." (Kirkus)
"Meticulous and persuasive.... Norton brings underappreciated figures such as Pennsylvania lawyer John Dickinson to the fore, and elucidates complex developments in all 13 colonies. This ambitious deep dive will remind readers that America has a long history of building consensus out of fractious disputes." (Publishers Weekly)
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Who knew that it was so important as to sow the seeds of rebellion!!
The author goes into great detail as the causes and ramifications of dumping the EIC tea into the harbor of Boston.
If you want to LEARN the details of this and what she details as the flame that started the revolution 1774 is the read for you.
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250th anniversary
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A good narrative
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Dry and Dramatic
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interesting historically but not riveting
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History from Every Point of View
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I am a Rev War historian and reenactor, well past over 50 books of the Rev War!
I have read them in every form of presentation. dry to dramatic.
The amount of detail and research that had to go into this is simply insain! How the author found all the obscure sources is beyond my comprehension! And how she put it all together and in cultural context shows her collosal intellect. The way she methodically and deliberately flowed one seamingly irrelevant event into another and then another, adding up to such radical political change unto war is masterful.
As an interpretor and historian, I am awed and humbled by your amazing retelling of the match that lite the fuse!
Bottom Line: We really were forced into it.
WOW! I am unworthy!
Bad Ass retelling of how it all started
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Well researched, but too long and boring.
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Details for the hardcore historian
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