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xvi, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits, maps ; 25 cm.
Prologue: Sustaining truth -- Obstructed giant -- Children of the twice-born -- Beginnings: from the top down -- Stamp Act crisis -- Response -- Selden's penny -- Chance and Charles Townsend -- Boston takes the lead -- "Bastards of England" -- Drift -- Resolution -- War -- "Half a war" -- Independence -- War of Posts -- War of Maneuver -- Revolution -- War in the South -- "Fugitive War" -- Inside the campaigns -- Outside the campaigns -- Yorktown -- Constitutional movement -- Children of the twice-born in the 1780s -- Constitutional Convention -- Ratification: an end and a beginning -- Epilogue: Enduring truth.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-674) and index.
In memory of Dr. Robert Wick, August 1998.
Oxford history of the United States ; v. 2