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good evening. i am the executive director of the society of the cincinnati. it is my pleasure to introduce our speaker this evening. i want you all to do me a favor. this is his book. he s going to talk to us about it. the book is the road to concord: how four stolen cannon ignited the revolutionary war. he will defend that premise for us a little bit later. i want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. it is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. i don t read quickly. the reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. it is graceful prose of an old-fashioned sort. and second, it is wonderfully researched, when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. all good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massach ....
good evening i m the exec difficult director of the society of the cincinnati. it s my inestimable is pleasure to introduce our speak this evening. this is his book, he is going to talk to us about it. the book is the road to concord. or how four stolen cannon ignited the revolutionary war. he will defend that premise for us a bit later, but i want to tell you what my reaction to this book is. i ve had the opportunity to read it already. it s one of three books i read cover to cover. i don t read it quickly. the reason is, first, it is extremely well written. it is graceful prose of an old-fashioned sort, and it is wonderfully researched, what i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work of history, that is all good works of history if they re original are revisionist in some way, but he s telling us a new story about the coming of the revelation in massachusetts. this book is a reflection of two things. one really good old-fashioned history wri ....
i want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. it is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. i don t read quickly. the reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. it is graceful prose of an old-fashioned sort. and second, it is wonderfully , when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. all good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massachusetts. a story you might have thought was already told to death. of twook is a reflection things. one, really good old-fashioned history writing of a kind we don t see as much as we used to. and the second thing is, it is indicative of the emergence of what i think is a new sort of history writing or a new kind of history research. in ways itossible was not possible 20 ye ....