A brand-new paperback edition of the bestseller that Howard Zinn
called “the best single-volume history of the Revolution I have
read”
Upon its first
publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People’s
History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael’s
magisterial A People’s History of the American Revolution
was hailed by Fresh Air as “relentlessly aggressive and
unsentimental.” With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide
array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a
bottom-up approach that has served as a revelation to thousands of
Americans.
A People’s
History of the American Revolution draws upon diaries, personal
letters, and other Revolutionary-era treasures, weaving a thrilling,
“you are there” narrative—“a tapestry that uses individual
experiences to illustrate the larger stories“ (Los Angeles Times
Book Review). In the trademark style of Zinn, Raphael shifts the
focus away from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to the slaves
they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the men and boys who did
the fighting.
This “remarkable
perspective on a familiar part of American history” (Kirkus) helps
us appreciate more fully the incredible diversity of the American
Revolution by allowing us to see it through different sets of eyes.
