Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

Russell Shorto

Nov 2017 · W. W. Norton & Company

About this ebook

“An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” —Chicago Tribune

At a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution. The result is a brilliant defense of American values with a compelling message: the American Revolution is still being fought today, and its ideals are worth defending.

Ratings and reviews

Historical, insightful, and thought provoking, the "Revolution Song," is a march through freedom' s endless journey, this book is the on going awareness to the common concerns of today's America.

About the author

Russell Shorto, author of the bestsellers Smalltime, Revolution Song, Amsterdam, and The Island at the Center of the World, is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society. He lives in Maryland.