A Trilogy About the American Revolution Begins

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Rick Atkinson talks about “The British Are Coming,” and Brenda Wineapple discusses “The Impeachers.”

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0:00.0	What can we learn today from the history of the American Revolution?
0:04.0	Rick Atkinson will be here to talk about his new book, The British Are Coming.
0:08.0	How do you impeach a president?
0:10.0	Brenda Weinappel will join us to talk about the impeachers,
0:14.0	the trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation.
0:18.0	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world,
0:21.0	plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:24.0	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:27.0	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:29.0	Rick Atkinson joins us now.
0:31.0	His new book is called The British Are Coming,
0:33.0	The War for America, Lexington, Princeton, 1775 to 1777.
0:40.0	Rick, thanks for being here.
0:41.0	Thanks Pamela.
0:42.0	It's an interesting subtitle because, of course,
0:44.0	it's not the American Revolution, but the war for America.
0:47.0	What are you trying to signify with that?
0:50.0	Well, it's the war for America in the sense that not only
0:52.0	is it a struggle for independence,
0:54.0	but it's a question of who we're going to be.
0:56.0	No one knows that it's going to be a republic,
0:59.0	but they're thinking about what kind of,
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