Good evening im the exec difficult director of the society of the cincinnati. Its 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. Ive had the opportunity to read it already. Its one of three books i read cover to cover. I dont read it quickly. The reason is, first, it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned 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 theyre original are revisionist in some way, but hes telling us a new story about the coming of the revelation in massachusetts. This book is a reflection of two things. One really good oldfashioned history writing of a kind that we dont s
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