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08.21.08

Our First Revolution

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Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers by Michael Barone. Most of us know about the 1688-89 “Glorious Revolution” that ousted the Stuarts and installed William and Mary, but Barone makes a highly readable, strong case for it as the intellectual precursor of the American Revolution.

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– Bill Ahlstrom, Los Altos, Calif. | Comments (no comments)

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