H.W. Brands illuminates the intensely personal nature of early Americans’ ideas about independence. In Our First Civil War, prolific historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, H.W. Brands zeroes in on that neglected aspect of the Revolution in a narrative told mostly through the writings of those who lived through it.

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