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Revolution Song : The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives by Russell Shorto (2017, Hardcover)
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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393245543
ISBN-139780393245547
eBay Product ID (ePID)235644716
Product Key Features
Book TitleRevolution Song : the Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorRussell Shorto
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight36.3 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-470756
ReviewsAn engaging, readable and surprisingly complete account of the American Revolution. A tour de force., Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding. The colonial world of Shorto's striving Americans is a marvelous stage for ambition, avarice, and the search for freedom., How did the teenaged daughter of a British officer view the American Revolution, from behind enemy lines in New York? What did that contest mean to a shrewd, contemplative Iroquois warrior? Russell Shorto has emerged from the archives with a bold, largely neglected cast. He has set them free in a rich, prismatic narrative, as intensely vivid as it is seamlessly constructed., Russell Shorto has long had an astonishing talent for adjusting the focus in ways that make familiar swaths of history seem intriguingly foreign and fresh. With Revolution Song, he's worked his magic again. Through his vigorous language, his mastery of archival sources and the pleasing interweave of his six carefully chosen characters, Shorto has composed a powerful polyphonic story, simultaneously grand and intimate, that makes us hear (and see and feel) the tumult of our nation's founding as never before., Russell Shorto has long had an astonishing talent for adjusting the focus in ways that make familiar swaths of history seem intriguingly foreign and fresh. With Revolution Song, he's worked his magic again. Through his vigorous language, his mastery of archival sources, and the pleasing interweave of his six carefully chosen characters, Shorto has composed a powerful polyphonic story, simultaneously grand and intimate, that makes us hear (and see and feel) the tumult of our nation's founding as never before., Shorto's achievement is a remarkable one. The intertwined stories of Revolution Song give a sense of how far-reaching a phenomenon the War of Independence was. It leaves to readers the pleasure of judging what each of the figures in the book--or perhaps the combination of them all--contributed to an event that changed the world., Russell Shorto's engaging new book appears at a moment when basic concepts of rights and equality are routinely disparaged. As if in response to our troubled political culture, he invites readers to return to the American Revolution to understand better how an 18th-century commitment to freedom took root and became a fundamental, unifying value in our nation's history. . . . [Shorto has] produced a compelling work that reads almost like a good detective story. . . . Shorto deserves praise for reminding us of the complexity of freedom's claims., What an amazing bunch of stories! In this deft sextuple biography, Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding. Teeming with traders, fighters, slaves, mistresses, and politicians, intimately linked to Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, the colonial world of Shorto's striving Americans is a marvelous stage for ambition, avarice, and, ever so unevenly, the search for freedom., Amazing: Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding., Shorto has taken the lives of six very different figures, ranging from a high British official to an African slave, and woven them seamlessly together into an engaging, readable, and surprisingly complete account of the American Revolution. A tour de force., With symphonic sweep, cinematic detail, and compelling, superbly researched real-life characters--including an iron-willed slave, a war-weary Iroquois statesman and an ambitious planter named George Washington--Shorto shows how our struggle for freedom began and why it remains so sadly unfinished. If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read., With symphonic sweep, cinematic detail and compelling, superbly researched real-life characters, Shorto shows how our struggle for freedom began and why it remains so sadly unfinished. If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read., Brilliant, captivating and fast-paced, Revolution Song is a wonderfully original take on the American Revolution that reads like a thriller. I couldn't put this book down.
SynopsisAt a time when America's founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song , Shorto weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution. The result is a brilliant defense of American values with a compelling message: the American Revolution is still being fought today, and its ideals are worth defending., Russell Shorto's work has been praised as "first-rate intellectual history" ( Wall Street Journal ), "literary alchemy" ( Chicago Tribune ) and simply "astonishing" ( New York Times ). In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the American nation, drawing on diaries, letters and autobiographies to flesh out six lives that cast the era in a fresh new light. They include an African man who freed himself and his family from slavery, a rebellious young woman who abandoned her abusive husband to chart her own course and a certain Mr. Washington, who was admired for his social graces but harshly criticized for his often-disastrous military strategy. Through these lives we understand that the revolution was fought over the meaning of individual freedom, a philosophical idea that became a force for violent change. A powerful narrative and a brilliant defense of American values, Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today and that its ideals are worth defending., From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.
LC Classification NumberE208.S57 2018
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