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Zusatztext "Should be read by every citizen. A work of prodigious research...and penetrating analysis."--The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Theodore Draper (1912–2006) was the winner of the American Historical Association’s 1990 Herbert Feis Award for nonacademically affiliated historians, and is the author of numerous books, including A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs . A long-time contributor to the New York Review of Books , he was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and lived in Princeton, New Jersey. Klappentext From 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. Zusammenfassung From 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.
