AMERICAN SPRING
Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Little, Brown, 2014, 496 pages
Now availble in:
Paperback (5/5/2015); Audio and e-book formats
Main Selection of the History Book Club
Focusing on colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and ordinary Americans caught up in the revolution, Borneman tells the story of how a decade of discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that forged our nation.
AMERICAN SPRING follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots on Lexington Green through the catastrophic Battle of Bunker Hill, culminating with George Washington taking command of colonial forces on July 3, 1775.
Praise for AMERICAN SPRING:
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•"Walter Borneman has written an engaging and illuminating account of some of the most critical weeks in American history. —Jon Meacham
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•“...likely to be one of the enduring accounts of the opening of the American Revolution.”
–Boston Globe Review by David Shribman
