“An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” —Chicago Tribune
At 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.
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"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 bookor perhaps the combination of them allcontributed to an event that changed the world." -- The New York Times Book Review
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Short-listed for George Washington Book Prize 2019.
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Chapter 1 Sons of Fathers |
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Chapter 2 A Tide in the Affairs of Men |
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Chapter 3 The Turtle's Back |
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Chapter 4 The Charming Sound of Bullets |
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Chapter 6 This Land I Have Made for You and Not for Others |
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Chapter 7 The Spirit That Rages |
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Chapter 8 Thirteen Toasts |
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Chapter 9 Assuming Command |
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Chapter 10 A Natural Inclination to Liberty |
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Chapter 11 The City of New York Will, in All Human Probability, Very Soon Be the Scene of a Bloody Conflict |
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Chapter 12 So Celestial an Article |
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Chapter 13 Cannons Muskets Drums |
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Chapter 15 Am Your Son! I Am a Warrior! |
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Chapter 16 Numberless Meteors Gleaming Through the Atmosphere |
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Chapter 17 The Cause of Humanity |
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Chapter 19 Glowing with Zeal for the General Happiness and Improvement of Mankind |
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Chapter 20 Which Nothing Else Can Equal |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of eight books, including Smalltime, Revolution Song, Amsterdam, and The Island at the Center of the World. He is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at the New York Historical and senior scholar at the New Netherland Institute.
