A Struggle for Power
The American Revolution
Published on 4. May 2011
560 pages
978-0-307-76000-5 (ISBN)
Description
From one of the great political journalists of our time comes a boldly argued reinterpretation of the central event in our collective past-a book that portrays the American Revolution not as a clash of ideologies but as a Machiavellian struggle for power.
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Theodore Draper (1912-2006) was the winner of the American Historical Association's 1990 Herbert Feis Award for nonacademically affiliated historians, and is the author of numerous books, including A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs. A long-time contributor to the New York Review of Books, he was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and lived in Princeton, New Jersey.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: "An accession of Power"
- 2: "Speculative reasoners"
- 3: "He is the Patriot"
- 4: "Fashionable reading"
- 5: "What subordination? What Obedience?"
- 6: "This Million doubling"
- 7: "A Sort of Independency"
- 8: "Combustible material"
- 9: "The winners and the losers"
- 10: "Our British Privileges"
- 11: "Patchwork Government"
- 12: "The very foundations of this Kingdom are sinking"
- 13: "We are therefore-SLAVES"
- 14: "Flattering whispers of independency"
- 15: "Blood in the Streets"
- 16: "If this be not a Tyranny"
- 17: "The dye is now cast"
- 18: "To raise a Flame"
- 19: "The Rubicon passed"
- 20: "A degree of importance"
