Volume 20, Number 2 · February 22, 1973
Battle Over the Revolution
By Eric Foner
From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776
by Pauline Maier
Knopf, 318 pp., $10.00
Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772-1774
by Richard D. Brown
Harvard, 282 pp., $10.00
The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789
by Mary Beth Norton
Little, Brown, 333 pp., $12.50
Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789-1815
by Richard Buel Jr.
Cornell, 391 pp., $14.50
As everyone must know by now, the bicentennial of American independence is fast approaching. But what kind of revolution will we be commemorating in 1976? The axiom that each generation rewrites history in its own image has certainly proven true of the American Revolution.[1]
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