4/8: Remembering the Vineyard of Liberty: 4/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.
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4/8: Remembering the Vineyard of Liberty: 4/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.
https://www.amazon.com/Cause-American-Revolution-Discontents-1773-1783/dp/1631498983
For more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance and, above all, its meaning. These questions have intrigued Ellis―one of our most celebrated scholars of American history―throughout his entire career. With this much-anticipated volume, he at last brings the story of the revolution to vivid life, with “surprising relevance” (Susan Dunn) for our modern era. Completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers, The Cause returns us to the very heart of the American founding, telling the military and political story of the war for independence from the ground up and from all sides: British and American, loyalist and patriot, white and Black.
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| 0:39.0 | whose notebook is The Cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, |
| 0:43.0 | emphasis on the discontents because everyone involved in the rebellion, |
| 0:48.0 | so called by the London side, the cause by the American side, |
| 0:53.0 | has other opinions than what's happening in front of them. |
| 0:56.6 | Washington's opinion is that this is a collective endeavor that needs discipline |
| 1:02.4 | and a Congress that supports it. |
| 1:05.2 | Congress has other ideas when it meets, |
| 1:08.0 | and chiefly not to fund the army, but to count on the militia, |
| 1:11.6 | what the professor calls the myth of the militia. |
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