| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv, 679 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518121-0.)

John Ferling's Almost a Miracle opens with great promise. It observes that the War of Independence stood as a profoundly life-altering event for its participants, just as World War II changed the lives of a generation of Americans in ways they could never have imagined before the war. Beyond the shared "experience of war" among soldiers, the war opened doors of opportunity for Americans of all social strata. Readers thus will begin Almost a Miracle with the expectation that they are about to embark on a broad-based narrative of the war in its varied and diverse social and cultural aspects. They will be disappointed.

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