Kevin Phillips has been a political and an economic commentator for four decades. This is his fifteenth book. The predecessor to this book, " The Cousins Wars," was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He lives in Connecticut."
"A feisty, fearless, edgy book, blissfully bereft of academic
jargon, propelled by the energy of an author with the bit in his
teeth. --"The New York Times Book Review"
In his amassing of mountains of facts from numerous monographs,
Phillips has tried to do what most academic historians these days
have not been much interested in doing bring together all the
meticulous research that has been going on for decades and turn it
into a comprehensive and readable book designed for general
readers. Much of what Phillips has written is clear and free of
jargon. His assessments of the various military situations,
especially those faced by the British, are always realistically
based, and his judgments of what was possible and what was not
possible for the British to do are always sound. --"The New York
Review of Books"
"Enthralling."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred, boxed review)
"Impressively authoritative...[A] deeply researched, meticulously
argued, multidimensional history."--"Kirkus" (starred review)
"A solid, well-argued, and informative re-examination of our
beginnings as a nation-state."--"Booklist""
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