Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
Don't Tread On Us
By Edmund S. Morgan
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
by Theodore Draper
Times Books, 544 pp., $35.00
This masterful narrative by one of our most acute political analysts can be enjoyed simply as a lucid account and explanation of the quarrel between England and its colonies that eventuated in American independence in 1776. The story has often been told before; but while Draper has few new details to add, he brings to it an instinct for the jugular and a worldly perspective that make the Revolution more intelligible in human terms than it has often appeared to be in other scholarly discussions. Draper's Revolution, as the title suggests, was first and foremost a struggle for power.
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