American Revolution For Dummies

• The battles, from Lexington to Yorktown
• The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution
• The Founding Fathers

Your foundational guide to the Revolution

We hold these truths to be self-evident… Or do we? How many of us truly understand the ideas, people, and events that turned the world upside down in 1776—eventually creating a new superpower that changed history forever? This is your friendly guide to that extraordinary and dangerous era, bringing you the reality beneath the tricorn hats to show how the Founding Fathers and ordinary Americans across the 13 colonies defeated the world's greatest empire and helped create the modern world.

Inside...

• The writing of The Declaration
• Biographies of leading figures and founding fathers
• How the Revolutionary War was fought
• Then and now: how the Revolution helps us understand modern America