Becker sets out to convey not just what colonists did between 1763 and 1776 but how they thought and felt about it. Through portraits of patriots and loyalists and their arguments, he follows the Stamp Act, the Townshend duties and the debates over the rights of Parliament that ended in independence.
A short classic of American historical writing from the Chronicles of America series, by one of its finest stylists. Download the free EPUB.