Born and raised in Maine, Alan Taylor teaches American and Canadian history at the University of Virginia. His books include The Divided Ground,Writing Early American History,American Colonies, and William Cooper’s Town, which won the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for American history. He also serves as a contributing editor to The New Republic.
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh,
authoritative history that recasts our thinking
about America’s founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constituti...