A review by miguelf
1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton

4.0

I don’t know about others who went through basic high school and college history courses and have a rudimentary grasp of the particulars of the American Revolution, but I consider myself under informed in this area and 1774 does quite a bit to remediate that shortcoming. Taking roughly 18 months before the infamous shooting started at Lexington, it gives a good background and many first hand sources to explore what was going on to the run-up to the country’s founding conflict.