The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

Just so much chronicling of just one side. It's just a rehash of the same old jr. high school history class. Nothing substantive or thoughtful.

The English, to whose defense I don't run, and who also neither need nor have earned the right to a defense, come across as cartoon characters.

Colonists resisting the Brits letting them just take native lands, an arrangement they came up with in the aftermath of the fight a war Britain fought to protect the colonists (i.e., the Grenville line)? Maybe a sentence or two.

Beating and torturing those who have a different opinion about taxation Is playfully brushed aside:

- “It was difficult not to be intimidated by a crowd, especially at a time when it had attained such skill in the gentle art of tarring and feathering.” P. 201.

Haw haw haw!

Writing history is about more than a highlight reel of how “we wupped ‘em real good.”

To say the least. At least among adults.

This is the fifth vol of the Oxford History that I have read, and it is MILES away from the others (What Hath God Wrought, Empire of Liberty, Freedom from Fear, and Empire for Which it Stands). Had I picked this one up first, I would not have read the others. Looking back at the others, I see I pretty much gave all of them the highest ratings.