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American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution Paperback – March 6, 2012
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- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDa Capo Press
- Publication dateMarch 6, 2012
- Dimensions8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
- ISBN-10030682079X
- ISBN-13978-0306820793
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The Federal Lawyer, July 2012
“[Unger] details the Colonies’ move to independence in a coherent and convincing narrative…There is a lot of history, and a lot of detail, in this relatively short volume, which remains exciting though the outcome is not in doubt.”
Portland Book Review, 5/22/12
“Unger captures the spirit of pre-Revolutionary America.”
Curled Up with a Good Book, 9/3/12
“A definitive account of this renowned incident of American history…An interesting read.”
Kirkus, 2/1/11
“A solidly researched account of the 1773 Boston Tea Party…[A] well-delineated, contrarian history.”
Booklist, 3/1/11
“Considering the incident’s resonance for the current Tea Party movement, Unger’s history allows timely comparison of the original and its contemporary namesake.”
Internet Review of Books, 2/16/11
“A fine example of historical research that educates and entertains at the same time…[An] eyes-wide-open look at what triggered the Revolutionary War and our split from the motherland.”
Politics & Patriotism, 3/6/12
“American Tempest re-defined my understanding of The Boston Tea Party, and what its legacy is to modern Americans. I will never think of ‘taxation without representation’ quite the same way ever again…American Tempest does more than tell us what happened before, during, and after The Boston Tea Party. The author makes his case for why it happened.”
Blogcritics.org, 3/16/12
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- Publisher : Da Capo Press (March 6, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 030682079X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0306820793
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,005,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,338 in U.S. Colonial Period History
- #2,067 in U.S. Revolution & Founding History
- #17,091 in U.S. State & Local History
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About the author
HARLOW GILES UNGER is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. A New York Times Bestselling author of more than 30 books, he is a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Among his books, "Lafayette" won the American Revolution Round Table Book Prize and the Daughters of the American Revolution book award among others. His best-seller, "The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness," earned him the Washington Post designation as a "Premier Presidential Biographer." Among his other books are biographies of Patrick Henry ("Lion of Liberty"); Lafayette; John Quincy Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, and, most recently, Thomas Paine. Cited by one critic as “America’s most readable historian,” he is a graduate of Yale University and spent many years as a foreign correspondent for leading newspapers and magazines. He is a former associate professor of English and journalism and author of many books on American education as well as American history. These include the popular "But What if I Don't Want to Go to College? A Guide to Success Through Alternative Education" and the award-winning, three volume Encyclopedia of American Education, a standard reference in academic and reference libraries.
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Author Harlow Giles Unger begins "American Tempest" with 'first principals': in this account, the founders are humans and decidedly not saints. The story exposes motivations - not always - but often led by economics, or personal power: no differently than today. The British quandary over American reaction to a relatively trivial tax, on a commodity unimportant in American society, for a purpose essential to American security can be understood. For the Americans, there was an essential indignity underlying the whole of the taxes that had less to do with economics than dignity. The colonies had matured to a point that their control by a parliament thousands of miles away, led by an effete class, in which they held no sway at all became the real ignitor for the conflagration that followed.
A very recommended read, "American Tempest" treats an old topic in a modern light. Unger's writing style is certain, urgent, and efficient. The story is relatively brief by today's standards, 240 pages plus afterward materials, which keeps it well paced and on-topic and told so compellingly that a 5th star is justified. Once let go of the notion of the 'Sainted Founder', the reader is exposed to the events in a way that gets to a clearer understanding of BOTH sides, and at the end much better enlightens, yet still leaves the pedestals of the founders untoppled. Also - for a British view of the whole Revolution see O'Shaughnessy's brilliant: The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire .
Unger has a way with words. He also has a way of re-telling an oft-told story to give it freshness. Having read (literally) 44 other works on the American Revolution, the possibility existed of getting so familiar with the story that it lost its compelling interest. Not so with Mr. Unger's writings. While I was able to read with confidence that the author knew his material, I did not feel that I was simply reading someone else's opinions.
One piece of information, among many that I never read before is that there were actually four different "tea parties": the one we know so much about inspired repeats.
"American Tempest..." also has a feel of being current enough to still be relevant to the 21st century reader, yet old enough to show where we started, how far we have come, and how we got here. I enjoyed Unger's use of current phrases like "tea party", which was used without either negative connotation or political endorsement.
I commend Harlow Giles Unger's "American Tempest..." to anyone wanting to read a fresh telling of the story of the beginnings of the great "American Experiment."
Five enthusiastic stars
Glenthebookseller is always very dependable.