| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America. By Gary B. Nash. (New York: Viking, 2005. xxxii, 512 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03420-7.)
Face out in the front of the store, in Borders and Barnes & Noble, the Founding Fathers biographies pile up. A naïve reader could think that their subjects waged the American Revolution alone.	1
Gary B. Nash has spent a lifetime arguing otherwise. He pioneered the notion that the founding American peoples included Native Americans and Africans as well as Europeans. He showed how the northern port cities formed the Revolution's "urban crucible." He depicted black Philadelphians forging their own freedom against huge odds. He invited us to watch early Americans struggling, surviving, and sometimes failing rather than succeeding. He provoked the wrath of Lynne V. Cheney and her ilk when he turned to the teaching of history in the schools. He trained a cohort of graduate students who have reshaped understanding of early America.	. . .

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