Taking us from the end of the Seven Years’ War to 1783, and drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, The Cause interweaves action-packed tales of North American military campaigns with parlor-room intrigues back in England, creating a thrilling narrative that brings together a cast of familiar and long-forgotten characters. Completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers, The Cause returns us to the very heart of the American founding, telling the military and political story of the war for independence from the ground up, and from all sides: British and American, loyalist and patriot, white and Black. With this much-anticipated volume, he at last brings the story of the revolution to vivid life, with “surprising relevance” (Susan Dunn) for our modern era. These questions have intrigued Ellis-one of our most celebrated scholars of American history-throughout his entire career. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.įor more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance, and above all, its meaning. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S.
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