Volume 23, Number 12 · July 15, 1976
The American Revolution: Was There "A People"?
By Edmund S. Morgan
A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution
by Page Smith
McGraw-Hill, 2 volumes, 1,899 pp., $24.95
1776, Year of Illusions
by Thomas Fleming
Norton, 525 pp., $12.50
Empire or Independence, 1770-1776: A British-American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution
by Ian R. Christie, by Benjamin W. Labaree
Norton, 332 pp., $12.50
A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence
by John Shy
Oxford University Press, 304 pp., $12.95
In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts of 1774
by David Ammerman
Norton, 170 pp., $2.95 (paper)
The Politics of Command in the American Revolution
by Jonathan G. Rossie
Syracuse University Press, 300 pp., $12.50
Party Politics in the Continental Congress
by H. James Henderson
McGraw-Hill, 512 pp., $15.00
The Spirit of '76: The Growth of American Patriotism Before Independence
by Carl Bridenbaugh
Oxford University Press, 162 pp., $8.95
A Cultural History of the American Revolution
by Kenneth Silverman
Thomas Y. Crowell, 736 pp., $17.50
American Art 1750-1800: Towards Independence
Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, by Charles F. Montgomery, by Patricia E. Kane general editors
New York Graphic Society, 320 pp., $22.50
The Enlightenment in America
by Henry May
Oxford University Press, 448 pp., $15.00
On page 1815 of A New Age Now Begins Page Smith tells his readers that his purpose has been to take the American Revolution 'away from the academic historians, the professors, and return it to you.' In keeping with that purpose, he has given his work the subtitle 'A People's History of the American Revolution.' This is certainly the most ambitious historical effort to come out of the Bicentennial, and it raises for a professor the questions of what has been taken from him and to whom has it been given. Who are the people? And how does a people's history of the Revolution differ from a professor's history?
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