![]() In Bunker Hill Philbrick essentially writes a local history of Boston, and its surrounding towns, between the Tea Party of late 1773, and the evacuation of British forces from the city in early spring 1776. One can only hope those books, when they come, are in the same style as Bunker Hill a City a Siege a Revolution, by Nathaniel Philbrick, as the book so easily departs from this staid methodology. As the coming sestercentennial of American independence approaches there is sure to be a glut of publishing on the subject. ![]() One needs to look no further than the two books by David McCullough, on John Adams, and the military leadership of the Continental Army in 1776, published in the early years of this century to see this trend. One of the problems with popular history of the American Revolution, and its era, is that it has been largely unable to free itself from the “Great Men of History” style. ![]()
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