Download Audiobook The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis in English

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A culminating work on the American Founding by one in all its main historians, The Trigger rethinks the American Revolution as we have now identified it. George Washington claimed that anybody who tried to supply an correct account of the conflict for independence could be accused of writing fiction. On the time, nobody referred to as it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists nonetheless regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Individuals, whereas John Adams insisted that the British had been the actual revolutionaries, for trying to impose radical change with out their colonists’ consent.With The Trigger, Ellis takes a recent take a look at the occasions between 1773 and 1783, recovering a conflict extra brutal than any in American historical past save the Civil Struggle and discovering a wierd breed of “prudent” revolutionaries, whose prudence proved sensible but tragic when it got here to slavery, the unique sin that also haunts our land. Written with aptitude and drama, The Trigger brings collectively a solid of acquainted and forgotten characters who, taken collectively, problem the story we have now lengthy informed ourselves about our origins as a folks and a nation.