The Patriot's Cause : A Practical Guide to Defending the Revolution and the Origins of the Greatest Nation

The Revolution wasn't won in a day. And it isn't kept in one either.

Most of us think we know the story: a few brave men in powdered wigs signed a parchment and built a nation. But that "postcard" version tells you almost nothing about what actually happened—or why any of it should still matter to you today. The Patriot's Cause is the full, vivid, unflinching story of how thirteen quarrelsome colonies pulled off the most improbable political achievement in modern history.

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER INSIDE THIS BOOK:

• THE REAL HISTORY: Experience the slow-motion collision between Britain and her colonies, the desperate Christmas-night crossing of the Delaware, the brutal winter at Valley Forge, and the shuttered summer in Philadelphia where fifty-five men quietly wrote a Constitution.


• UNVARNISHED FIGURES: Meet George Washington as he actually was, Thomas Paine toppling a monarchy with a pamphlet, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington's midnight ride, Abigail Adams shaping a presidency, and the courageous men of the First Rhode Island Regiment.


• THE FORGOTTEN VOICES: Discover the stories textbooks usually leave out, including the torn Iroquois Confederacy, the sixty thousand Loyalists who lost everything, and the enslaved Americans who saw the chaos of war as a path to liberty.


• A CITIZEN'S FIELD MANUAL: Transition from history to modern application with a practical guide on what founding documents to actually read, the habits a free republic depends on, and what to do when the system feels like it is straining at the seams.

Written for the curious reader—the student, the parent, the traveler, and the citizen—this book is engaging, rigorous, and refuses to talk down to you. With more than fifty richly described scenes, it does not just tell you what happened; it lets you stand on Lexington Green at dawn and walk through the trenches at Yorktown.

The Revolution was a beginning, not an ending. This is the book that hands you what they began—and asks what you will do with it. A republic, if you can keep it.