One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution-New York Times Book Review 'During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one-William and Mary Quarterly'[A] brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture in the Revolutionary generation-New England Quarte