A People's History of the American Revolution How Common People
Shaped the Fight for Independence By Ray Raphael (Harper
Perennial, Paperback, 9780060004408, 528pp.) Publication Date:
June 2002 A sweeping narrative of the wartime experience, A
People's History of the American Revolution is the first book to
view the revolution through the eyes of common folk. Their
stories have long been overlooked in the mythic telling of
America's founding, but are crucial to a comprehensive
understanding of the fight for independence. Now, the
experiences of farmers, laborers, rank and file soldiers, women,
Native Americans, and African Americans -- found in diaries,
letters, memoirs and other long-ignored primary sources --
create a gritty account of rebellion, filled with ideals and
outrage, loss, sacrifice, and sometimes scurrilous acts...but
always ringing with truth. Ray Raphael is the author of numerous
books, including An Everyday History of Somewhere, The Men from
the Boys: Rites of Passage in Male America, and Tre