An Award-Winning Book
  Commonwealth Club Book Award (1979)
  John D. Rockefeller III Award
  Francis Parkman Prize
  National Historical Society Book Prize
  Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

“Represents a quantum leap in our understanding of the Revolution. . . . [The book] is social history, intellectual history, institutional history, political history, and not any single one of them, which is to say that it is good history.”

--Edmund S. Morgan


“Royster’s is a fine book—original, intelligently argued, persuasive, and beautifully written.”

--John Shy