Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine.

A tour de force.” - Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution“Russell Shorto has long had an astonishing talent for adjusting the focus in ways that make familiar swaths of history seem intriguingly foreign and fresh. If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read.” - Howard Fineman, NBC News analyst and author of The Thirteen American Arguments“Amazing: Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its f

They include an African man who freed himself and his family from slavery, a rebellious young woman who abandoned her abusive husband to chart her own course and a certain Mr. From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.Russell Shorto’s work has been praised as “first-rate intellectual history” (Wall Street Journal), “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune) and simply “astonishing” (New York Times).In his epic new book, Russe