TY - JOUR
AU - Gould, Eliga
AB - FEATURED REVIEW Woody  Holton. Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History regulars in Indian country, which in turn supplied the of the American Revolution. New York: Simon and pretext for the parliamentary taxes that so outraged Shuster, 2021. Pp. 779. Cloth $37.50. colonists on the Atlantic seaboard. Had the Wabash River’s Indigenous matrons “not founded a pan- For historians of the American Revolution, there Indian confederacy to battle the British,” writes are supposed to be few more certain paths to fame Holton, the American Revolution might not have hap- and fortune than writing a flattering book about the pened (160). Founders, as Woody Holton observes in the clos- If one of Holton’s targets is history that cele- ing pages of Liberty Is Sweet. That may or may not brates the Founders to the exclusion of everyone be true. But as anyone who has followed the contro- else, another is the tendency to write about the rev- versies and talking points of our own time surely olution as an abstract, bloodless struggle over ideals. knows—whether the topic is the enduring appeal of Although Holton does not discount the importance Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States of the revolution’s principles—liberty, 
TI - Transactional Revolutionaries
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhad135
DA - 2023-03-31
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/transactional-revolutionaries-iTrNYZh5EC
SP - 405
EP - 408
VL - 128
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -