{"product_id":"the-american-revolution-a-history-modern-library-chronicles-9780679640578","title":"The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field  which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older  classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years. -Joseph J. Ellis  author of Founding Brothers  A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic.  When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States  he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States  but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom  constitutionalism  the well-being of ordinary people  and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution  in short  gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had.  No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become  in fewer than three decades  a huge  sprawling  rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution  like the history of the nation as a whole  ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood  not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Woods mastery of his subject  and of the historians craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652929871925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679640576","price":35.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679640578.jpg?v=1781853332","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-american-revolution-a-history-modern-library-chronicles-9780679640578","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}