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04233aam a22004938i 4500 001 2B08B828A6B511EDAB1CAA9536ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230207010047 008 221012s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022042073 020 $a 1455565156 020 $a 9781455565153 035 $a (OCoLC)1347699137 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d VAMVE $d JIM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E209 $b .T478 2023 082 00 $a 973.3 $2 23/eng/20221014 100 1 $a Thompson, Bob, $d 1950 August 28- $e author. 245 10 $a Revolutionary roads : $b searching for the war that made America independent...and all the places it could have gone terribly wrong / $c Bob Thompson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Twelve, $c 2023. 300 $a viii, 436 pages, [16] pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "REVOLUTIONARY ROADS takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and might have been lost. You'll ride shotgun with Bob Thompson as he puts more than 20,000 miles on his car, not to mention his legs; walks history-shaping battlefields from Georgia to Quebec; and hangs out with passionate lovers of revolutionary history whose vivid storytelling and deep knowledge of their subject enrich his own. Braiding these elements together into a wonderfully entertaining whole - and with a reporter's abiding concern for getting the story straight - he has written an American Revolution book like no other. The Revolutionary War is one of the greatest stories in all history, an eight-year epic filled with self-sacrificing heroes, self-interested villains, and, more interestingly, all the shades of complex humanity in between. It boasts large-scale gambles that sometimes paid off but usually didn't, as well as countless tiny, fraught tipping points like a misunderstood order in a South Carolina cow pasture that could have altered the course of the war. The drama is magnified when you consider what was at stake: the fate of a social and political experiment that would transform the world. Yet we don't know this story as well as we should, or how easily the ending could have changed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-419) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: "Something Different Is Going to Happen" -- "You'll Have Enough Noise Before Too Long" -- The Grassy Knoll of the Revolution -- "A Middle Finger Raised at the Powers That Be" -- "The Difference Between Life and a Frozen Death" -- "Are You Here for the Knox Marker?" -- Toward the Gap in That Brooklyn Ridge -- Where the Hell was Charles Lee? -- The Battle of the Rusty Pole -- "It was One Afternoon in August-But It Made a Difference -- "The Accidental Battle that Won the Revolution" -- "We Didn't Mean You, Mr. Marquis!" -- The Continental Army Does the Wave -- "Which Side Would You Join?" -- The British Were Coming-Again -- The Drunken Bash that Saved the Revolution -- Down the Benedict Arnold Escape Path -- Over the Mountains, Kings of the Hill -- "A Sweeping Guerilla War of Movement" -- "Across the River, Just in Time" -- The Midnight Ride of Jack Jouett -- A Battle You Could Hear But Couldn't See -- "Little Short of a Standing Miracle". 651 0 $a United States $x Battlefieds. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Battlefieds. 651 0 $a United States $x Monuments. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Monuments. 651 0 $a United States $x Description and travel. 600 10 $a Thompson, Bob, $d 1950 August 28- $x Travel $z United States. 650 7 $a Monuments. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01025892 650 7 $a Travel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1775-1783 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 6 952 $l FJPC224 $d 20240816012039.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710062651.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509011529.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011737.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20230519013746.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20230207012606.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B08B828A6B511EDAB1CAA9536ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search