About the Author

Charles Royster, Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times, Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution and The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, which received the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Award in Southern History.

Reviews

Represents a quantum leap in our understanding of the Revolution.Edmund S. Morgan, "New Republic"

"Represents a quantum leap in our understanding of the Revolution.Edmund S. Morgan, "New Republic""

It is a work of art. . . . No student of early American history should miss it."Journal of Southern History"