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Revolutionary Roads : Searching for the War That Made America Independent... and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong by Bob Thompson (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-101455565156

ISBN-139781455565153

eBay Product ID (ePID)15057263198

Product Key Features

Book TitleRevolutionary Roads : Searching for the War That Made America Independent... and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicModern / 18th Century, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), United States / General

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorBob Thompson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-042073

Reviews"A splendid, entertaining meditation on the war that launched a nation. REVOLUTIONARY ROADS is a time machine, ready to transport any 21st century reader searching for our 18th century roots."-- Rick Atkinson

SynopsisIn the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War. Revolutionary Roads takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and might have been lost. You'll ride shotgun with Bob Thompson as he puts more than 20,000 miles on his car, not to mention his legs; walks history-shaping battlefields from Georgia to Quebec; and hangs out with passionate lovers of revolutionary history whose vivid storytelling and deep knowledge of their subject enrich his own. Braiding these elements together into a wonderfully entertaining whole - and with a reporter's abiding concern for getting the story straight - he has written an American Revolution book like no other. The Revolutionary War is one of the greatest stories in all history, an eight-year epic filled with self-sacrificing heroes, self-interested villains, and, more interestingly, all the shades of complex humanity in between. It boasts large-scale gambles that sometimes paid off but usually didn't, as well as countless tiny, fraught tipping points like a misunderstood order in a South Carolina cow pasture that could have altered the course of the war. The drama is magnified when you consider what was at stake: the fate of a social and political experiment that would transform the world. Yet we don't know this story as well as we should, or how easily the ending could have changed.

LC Classification NumberE209.T478 2023