Revolutionaries

Inventing an American Nation

Jack Rakove

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Random House
15 July 2011

History; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

A brilliant and original new history of the American Revolution, told through the lives and minds of the men who led it, doing for the United States what Linda Colley's ground-breaking Britons did for our own country.

In this remarkable book, Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating insights- Washington as a flawed tactician but expert manager; Jack Laurens as a slave trader's son who developed a plan to recruit black soldiers; Jefferson as a powerful critic of Europe's social order but a voracious consumer of its culture.

Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, Revolutionaries uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding.

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Original Meanings- Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.

By: Jack Rakove
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9780099551867
ISBN 10: 0099551861
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 15 July 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Rakove is Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of four books; Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1997.

Reviews for Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation

Deeply researched and elegantly written, this book marks a milestone in the study of America's revolutionary period. It should not be missed. Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello Brilliant...By using some marvelous vignettes and beautifully crafted portraits of the principal characters as a means of exploring the crucial issues of the Revolutionary era, [Rakove] has written a remarkable work of history. Gordon S. Wood Jack Rakove's book is a superb account of the forces that turned the colonists from loyal subjects into revolutionaries... A first-rate read -- Simon Shaw Daily Mail