American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
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Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans—-most of them members of farm families living in small communities—-were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority during the American Revolution. The Barnes & Noble Review Breen is aware that his use of the word "insurgents" might seem provocative in today's climate. The American revolutionaries were insurgents, he insists, and occasionally terrorists and torturers as well. He does not apologize for this fact, for he very clearly admires these insurgents and the efficiency and restraint with which they went about their nation-building task. Breen doesn't belabor comparisons with today's insurgencies and rebellions, but of course they are impossible to ignore, and he gently reminds us of the parallels. These days, Breen concludes, "as so many other people throughout the world demand their rights and justice, they challenge modern Americans to remember their own revolutionary origins."
