George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent.
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
- 作者： Joseph J. Ellis
- 出版社： Liveright Publishing
- 出版日期： 2021-09-21
- ISBN碼： 9781631498985
- 編號： 1001271632682058242007
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