Prologue: Sustaining truths -- Obstructed giant -- Children of the twice-born -- Beginnings: from the top down -- Stamp Act crisis -- Response -- Selden's penny -- Chance and Charles Townshend -- Boston takes the lead -- "Bastards of England" -- Drift -- Resolution -- War -- "Half a war" -- Independence -- War of posts -- War of maneuver -- Revolution becomes a European war -- War in the South -- "Fugitive war" -- Inside the campaigns -- Outside the campaigns -- Yorktown and Paris -- Constitutional movement -- Children of the twice-born in the 1780s -- Constitutional Convention -- Ratification: an end and a beginning -- Epilogue: Enduring truths.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-674) and index.
Summary
Recounts the events leading up to the Revolution and discusses the major leaders, campaigns, and battles of the war.
