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- Title
Review: T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America.
- Authors
Griffin, Michael J.
- Abstract
Breen asserts that "Americans did not follow the divisive script that has compromised so many revolutions throughout the world" (159). Throughout, Breen demonstrates with narrative brio how it was primarily ordinary people, and not the fabled and fetishized founders, who forged and sustained a revolution against the British government. b That revolutions generally end very badly is a truth generally (if not universally) acknowledged, and the proposition that the American Revolution did I not i (though it may be too early to tell) underpins T. H. Breen's excellent and highly readable book.
- Subjects
AMERICA; FAIR use (Copyright); HUMAN behavior; REVOLUTIONARIES
- Publication
IJAS Online, 2020, Issue 10, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2009-2377
- Publication type
Article