The Radicalism of the American Revolution : Pulitzer Prize Winner

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. Examines colonial society and the transformations in colonial life that resulted from the republican tendencies brought to the surface by the Revolution