CHIDSEY : The great separation (fülszöveg)
"This meeting can do nothing more to save the country." When Samuel Adams spoke these words, they were heard by thousands of men who had gathered from Boston and from towns as far as twenty miles away. They had come to find out what would be done about the tea waiting in the holds of the three vessels that rested off Griffin's Wharf. "Boston Harbor a teapot tonight," someone shouted, and the men milled into the street, shouting and whooping like red men. All day, a special group of men, disguised as Indians, began to appear from all directions. By nightfall, seventy or eighty of them had congregated, solemn despite their gaudy outfits, to do the work which the events of years had been leading to.
Here, in The Great Separation, the latest of Donald Barr Chidsey's on-the-scene accounts of early American history, is the story of the events preceding the American Revolution. Not only does the reader participate in the nerve-tingling excitement of the Boston Tea Party, but he learns what was happening in Commons and how the merchants in England and the Colonies thought. The background of the so-called Navigation Acts, the Molasses Act, the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act is discussed, and it soon becomes clear the separation of the Colonies is inevitable. The reactions of Englishmen and Colonists to the Sons of Liberty, the positions taken by such patriots as Benjamin Franklin and Richard Henry Lee, and the attitudes of the leading British officials in the colonies and at home provide sometimes startling sidelights.
The reader attends the first clandestine meetings at which noncompliance with Parliament's demands was merely hinted, and watches the beginnings of rebellion grow and spread, as mistakes are made on both sides. When, finally, the irretraceable step is taken, the many elements, the rights and wrongs and reasons of the Colonists and the British are clearer than they have ever been. Once again, Donald Barr Chidsey has brought history alive and has added a great popular interpretation to the literature about the founding of our country.
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