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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Suggested read for the day... and the summer...


 Suggested read for the day... and the summer...





Read a 'Weston Wagons West' historical fiction story today...

Here is an update of the 64 story suite of tales, chronicling the author's ancestors from the 1600s to the 1900s...


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Happy Reading,

Dr. Bill  ;-)

Monday, June 15, 2015

It's Monday, What are You Reading? American Insurgents


It's Monday, What are You Reading?
American Insurgents, American Patriots: 
The Revolution of the People 
by T.H.Breen


This post is the ninety-fourth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]




This book sat on my shelf for nearly five years, it appears… don’t know why. It is a fascinating, new approach, to the American Revolution, that I enjoy so much! The author, a history professor, has written several books on the period.
 

Book Description from Amazon:

Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans--most of them members of farm families living in small communities--were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. This is the compelling story of our national political origins that most Americans do not know. It is a story of rumor, charity, vengeance, and restraint. American Insurgents, American Patriots reminds us that revolutions are violent events. They provoke passion and rage, a willingness to use violence to achieve political ends, a deep sense of betrayal, and a strong religious conviction that God expects an oppressed people to defend their rights. The American Revolution was no exception.

A few celebrated figures in the Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice, kill, and be killed. Breen not only gives the history of these ordinary Americans but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their primacy to American independence. Mobilizing two years before the Declaration of Independence, American insurgents in all thirteen colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage through elected committees of safety and observation, which before 1776 were the heart of American resistance. American Insurgents, American Patriots is the stunning account of their insurgency, without which there would have been no independent republic as we know it.


Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)