"A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."--The Washington Post From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the...
In honor of Independence Day, we offer a roundup of ten revelatory reads about the brutal, eight-year war that transformed a scrappy, young nation into the United States of America.