The Radicalism of the American Revolution

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

• Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
• Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)
• The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
• American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
• The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
• Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
• The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
• Washington: A Life
• 1776
• The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)