"This book is not merely a recapitulation of the War for Independence. It is an attempt to set before the reader the 'what-happened' of our Revolution in terms of the issues and conflicts that fired the colonists and prodded them to make a new nation. It is a commemoration of how the Americans worked out their political destiny by means of trial and error, success and failure, with all the vices and virtues, shortcomings, sense and nonsense that encumber every such complex undertaking. The selections in this book are meant to allow those whom we designate as Founding Fathers to speak for themselves as they once spoke to each other."--Amazon.com.