A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution

✍ Scribed by Theodore Draper

Publisher: Vintage
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 560
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

rom one of the great political journalists of our time comes a boldly argued reinterpretation of the central event in our collective past--a book that portrays the American Revolution not as a clash of ideologies but as a Machiavellian struggle for power.

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