{"product_id":"the-whiskey-rebellion-george-washington-alexander-hamilton-and-the-frontier-rebels-who-challenged-americas-newfound-sovereignty","title":"The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty","description":"A gripping and provocative tale of violence  alcohol  and taxes  The Whiskey Rebellion pits President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton against angry  armed settlers across the Appalachians. Unearthing a pungent segment of early American history long ignored by historians  William Hogeland brings to startling life the rebellion that decisively contributed to the establishment of federal authority.  In 1791  at the frontier headwaters of the Ohio River  gangs with blackened faces began to attack federal officials  beating and torturing the collectors who plagued them with the first federal tax ever laid on an American productwhiskey. In only a few years  those attacks snowballed into an organized regional movement dedicated to resisting the fledgling governments power and threatening secession  even civil war.  With an unsparing look at both Hamilton and Washingtonand at lesser-known  equally determined frontier leaders such as Herman Husband and Hugh Henry Brackenridgejournalist and popular historian William Hogeland offers an insightful  fast-paced account of the remarkable characters who perpetrated this forgotten revolution  and those who suppressed it. To Hamilton  the whiskey tax was key to industrial growth and could not be permitted to fail. To hard-bitten people in what was then the wild West  the tax paralyzed their economies while swelling the coffers of greedy creditors and industrialists. To President Washington  the settlers resistance catalyzed the first-ever deployment of a huge federal army  led by the president himself  a military strike to suppress citizens who threatened American sovereignty.  Daring  finely crafted  by turns funny and darkly poignant  The Whiskey Rebellion promises a surprising trip for readers unfamiliar with this primal national dramawhose climax is not the issue of mere taxation but the very meaning and purpose of the American Revolution.  With three original maps by Jack Ryan.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44848665133109,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743254902","price":28.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0743254902_ccdc0b42-21f6-44c6-999b-59b73ab9a850.jpg?v=1770199632","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-whiskey-rebellion-george-washington-alexander-hamilton-and-the-frontier-rebels-who-challenged-americas-newfound-sovereignty","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}