ebooks Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles with Puralism by John Courtney Murray in History

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In the rows of august marble busts that commemorate the American Revolution; we have lost sight of the true radical spirit of the longest and most disruptive upheaval in our history; argues distinguished American historian Gary B. Nash. In this brilliant reexamination of the swirl of ideology; grievance; outrage; and hope that animated the revolutionary decades; Nash demonstrates that though the Founding Fathers led the charge; the energy to raise a revolt emerged from all classes and races of American society. Millennialist preachers and enslaved Africans; frontier mystics and dockside tars; disgruntled women and aggrieved Indians—all had their own fierce vision of what an independent America could and should be. According to Nash; the American Revolution was truly a people’s revolution; a civil war at home as well as an armed insurrection against colonial control. In this ideal companion volume to Howard Zinn’s classic A People’s History of the United States; Nash re-creates the heady and often-violent excitement that convulsed American lives during the last three decades of the eighteenth century and presents a unique look at the struggle to create a new country.