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Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Maybe someday
35
/100
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Readers
35/100Critics
34/100Scholars
Author:
Woody Holton
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
October 19, 2021
An esteemed historian reframes the American Revolution, emphasizing the contributions of groups usually omitted in this story: Native Americans, African Americans and women.
What The Reviewers Say
In his meticulously researched, beautifully calibrated Liberty Is Sweet, historian Woody Holton adds necessary nuance, building on...stories previously marginalized (or invisible) in our narrative of the nation's birth while illuminating a collective yearning to form a more perfect union.
Holton is a proficient and tireless researcher who, using his own findings and those of others, presents fresh appraisals of important developments based on lives and events long condemned to obscurity.
By widening the scope of what he looks at, Holton delivers a much more interesting and complicated story than the traditional legend of the nation’s founding.
A great strength of Liberty Is Sweet is that it refuses to paint either the colonists or the British Empire as simple villains or victims.
