The Radicalism of the American Revolution
 

The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Vintage)

by Gordon S. Wood

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. (read review)

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Dr. J Medicine Monkey
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I recommend this to those of you with more social science interests and perspectives. It does not read like a typical history book as in a series of events, but instead deals much more with the change in social structure that was experience in the colonies that lead to a facilitated the birth of the US.

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