The odds against them were absurd. Thirteen quarrelling colonies, no navy, an empty treasury, and a shortage of boots — against the most powerful empire on earth.

By every conventional measure, the American Revolution should have been a brief and bloody footnote.
It wasn't.

In This Book , Billy L. Crawford asks how a coalition of colonial underdogs defeated an eighteenth-century superpower and then wrote a blueprint for self-government that has endured for nearly 250 years. Engaging the providential reading of history advanced by writers like Eric Metaxas — and testing it against the documentary record rather than simply repeating it — Crawford tells the founding as neither secular accident nor sanitized myth.

Here is the Great Awakening that primed a continent for liberty. The sentence Jefferson wrote that was truer than the man who wrote it. The fog over the East River, the winter at Valley Forge, the locked room in Philadelphia. And the uncomfortable questions most books in this genre avoid:

What do we do with founders who wrote "all men are created equal" and owned human beings? What happens to a nation's faith in itself when its own heroes fail its own creed?
Clear-eyed about the miracle and honest about the sins, Revolution argues that America's greatness lies not in having been perfect, but in having written down a standard high enough to convict itself — a standard Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King would one day pick up and use.

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