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Liberty Is Sweet

The Hidden History of the American Revolution
  • Woody Holton
2022
Simon & Schuster

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Featured Excerpts

  • Cover of "Liberty Is Sweet," featuring a painting of a man holding a gun to two soldiers on horseback.
    Q&A

    Fighting the American Revolution

    An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."
    by Woody Holton, Tom Cutterham via Age of Revolutions on April 11, 2022
  • Painting of George Washington in New York, 1783, surrounded by a crowd.
    Book Review

    The Many American Revolutions

    Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home. 
    by Eric Foner via The Nation on April 4, 2022
  • ‘Flight of Lord Dunmore’; postcard, 1907.
    Book Review

    The Paradox of the American Revolution

    Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.
    by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on December 24, 2021
  • Image of George Washington in front a map of the United States.
    Book Review

    The Storm Over the American Revolution

    Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?
    by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on November 18, 2021

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Abraham Lincoln speaking to a crowd.

Stop Making Sense

Are the truths in the Declaration of Independence really self-evident?
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on November 8, 2021
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