“Lord Dunmore has commenced hostilities in Virginia, and it has raised our country into a perfect frenzy.” Andrew Lawler talks to Jeremy Finley about his latest history chronicle, A PERFECT FRENZY: A ROYAL GOVERNOR, HIS BLACK ALLIES, AND THE CRISIS THAT SPURRED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
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GOLDEN HILL, by Francis Spufford
LIBERTY IS SWEET: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, by Woody Holton
THE MEN WHO LOST AMERICA: BRITISH LEADERSHIP, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE FATE OF THE EMPIRE, by Andrew O’Shaughnessy
THE FABULOUS HISTORY OF THE DISMAL SWAMP COMPANY: A STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S TIMES, by Charles Royster
DEATH OR LIBERTY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, by Douglas R. Egerton
