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This is the story of the American Revolution, the men who managed to get and who then secured it. It is the story associated with an improbable victory by the provincial assortment of loosely knit colonies in the dominant military and political power on the globe. It is also the storyline of the creation of a nation founded on principles that nobody at that time thought to be viable, and that over time have come to be thought to be the most successful recipe for political success in today's world. The central theme of the storyline is usually that the creation of the nation of laws was only permitted by a small group of men, whom we make reference to here as the Brotherhood of the Revolution.In this program, readers are given an detailed look at the single most consequential event of American history: the American Revolution. Distinguished historian Edmund Morgan wrote that nobody has ever quite understood the Revolution and that nobody ever will. This course is an attempt, at least on some level, to prove him wrong. While the American Revolution now appears to have been inevitable, it was, in fact, highly improbable. An early conversation between Continental Congressman Eldridge Gerry and Benjamin Harrison about the chance to be hanged by the British is a prime example of the enormous risks that were involved. In this program, it'll be shown precisely how problematic and uncertain this period of history actually was.
