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By Ray Raphael

According to the normal telling, the yankee Revolution begun with “the shot heard around the world.” Now in paperback, Ray Raphael’s The First American Revolution makes use of the wide-angle lens of a people’s historian to inform a shocking new tale of America’s progressive struggle.

In the years sooner than the conflict of Lexington and harmony, neighborhood people—men and ladies of universal capacity yet of unusual courage—overturned British authority and declared themselves unfastened from colonial oppression, with acts of uprising that lengthy predated the Boston Tea occasion. In rural cities corresponding to Worcester, Massachusetts, democracy set down roots good sooner than the Boston patriots made their strikes within the struggle for independence. Richly documented, the 1st American Revolution recaptures in shiny aspect the grassroots activism that drove occasions within the years best as much as the holiday from Britain.

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