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Original Title:	Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution
ISBN:	0345427548 (ISBN13: 9780345427540)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	American Revolutionary War [1770-1783] #1
Characters:	Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Dickinson

Rise to Rebellion (American Revolutionary War [1770-1783] #1)

Jeff Shaara

Paperback | Pages: 492 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 7711 Users | 498 Reviews

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Title	:	Rise to Rebellion (American Revolutionary War [1770-1783] #1)
Author	:	Jeff Shaara
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 492 pages
Published	:	June 29th 2004 by Ballantine Books (first published July 3rd 2001)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Military History. American Revolution. War. American Revolutionary War. North American Hi.... American History

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Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.

In 1770, the fuse of revolution is lit by a fateful command--"Fire!"--as England's peacekeeping mission ignites into the Boston Massacre. The senseless killing of civilians leads to a tumultuous trial in which lawyer John Adams must defend the very enemy who has assaulted and abused the laws he holds sacred.

The taut courtroom drama soon broadens into a stunning epic of war as King George III leads a reckless and corrupt government in London toward the escalating abuse of his colonies. Outraged by the increasing loss of their liberties, an extraordinary gathering of America's most inspiring characters confronts the British presence with the ideals that will change history.

John Adams, the idealistic attorney devoted to the law, who rises to greatness by the power of his words . . . Ben Franklin, one of the most celebrated men of his time, the elderly and audacious inventor and philosopher who endures firsthand the hostile prejudice of the British government . . . Thomas Gage, the British general given the impossible task of crushing a colonial rebellion without starting an all-out war . . . George Washington, the dashing Virginian whose battle experience in the French and Indian War brings him the recognition that elevates him to command of a colonial army . . . and many other immortal names from the Founding Family of the colonial struggle--Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Warren, Samuel Adams, Richard Henry Lee-- captured as never before in their full flesh-and-blood humanity.

More than a powerful portrait of the people and purpose of the revolution, Rise to Rebellion is a vivid account of history's most pivotal events. The Boston Tea Party, the battles of Concord and Bunker Hill--all are recreated with the kind of breathtaking detail only a master like Jeff Shaara can muster. His most impressive achievement, Rise to Rebellion reveals with new immediacy how philosophers became fighters, ideas their ammunition, and how a scattered group of colonies became the United States of America.

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

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This book made the roots of the American Revolution clearer to me. I met the Sons of Liberty as real people, and Ben Franklin, and George Washington and the other movers & shakers who drew the Colonies together in defense against the tyranny of the British governors and the Redcoats. It reads like a great novel, but it's history, told in a more lively way here than in our old High School textbooks.

You're probably familiar with characters involved in the birth of the United States--the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, to name a few. Jeff Shaara has taken the massive amount of research necessary to bring these characters to life. You can walk with them, look into their thoughts and see actual historical events unfold. I found my understanding of what really, finally got the colonists to think about independence expanded when I could take a peek into the actual



I recently reread this excellent historical novel in preparation for my first visit to that cradle of American democracy, Philadelphia. The second reading was even more satisfying than the first. Shaara's novel opens in 1770 at the Boston "Massacre" and concludes with the tremendously moving scene of George Washington having the Declaration of Independence read aloud to his troops in 1776. Shaara tells each chapter from the perspective of a different historical figure, (Washington, Adams,

This is my first Jeff Shaara. It won't be my last. The American Revolution is a subject that has always fascinated me. Suffice to say there was fault on both sides if truth be told on the matter. Shaara like any good historical novelist writes in a very engaging way bringing many historical characters & events to life. The history is good & very reliable. Where the book does help, especially, is that it reveals that the American Revolution was really a result of growing pains &

In a few weeks, I'm going to Boston and in preparation for the trip, I decided to read Rise to Rebellion. I could not be happier that I did.This book was fantastic in a multitude of ways. It was a great overview of the beginning of the Revolution and told this incredible story through such eloquent language that parts almost moved me to tears. (Though not fully Jeff Shaara's penmanship, the reading of the Declaration of Independence to Washington's soldiers had me thoroughly choked up. Dr.

Jeff Shaara is at his best in the revolutionary era. As much as I enjoyed his Civil War era novels, this is the best one of his, as he really shows the human side of many of our founders BEFORE they would have been considered revolutionaries. He captures John and Sam Adams during the Boston Massacre, humanizes Franklin as a colonial agent in London, and shows the doubt and inner-failings of Thomas Gage as Massachusetts and the colonies slip towards rebellion. I like this book as a refresher