New Book on Revere’s Ride Arriving
The publisher’s description says:
In The Ride, Kostya Kennedy presents a dramatic new narrative of the events of April 18 and 19, 1775, informed by fresh primary and secondary source research into archives, family letters and diaries, contemporary accounts, and more. Kennedy reveals Revere’s ride to be more complex than it is usually portrayed—a loosely coordinated series of rides by numerous men, near-disaster, capture by British forces, and finally success. While Revere was central to the ride and its plotting, Kennedy reveals the other men (and, perhaps, a woman with information about the movement of British forces) who helped to set in motion the events that would lead to America’s independence.Kennedy’s background is in sports writing, with books on Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, and Pete Rose.
Looking at how the industry advance notices of the book, I don’t see anything new mentioned. What those reviewers tout as news—that Revere made many rides besides the famous one, that there were many riders on that date besides Revere, and that Margaret Gage may have leaked news of the British march—were all in David Hackett Fischer’s book Paul Revere’s Ride, published in 1994. But the reviews praise Kennedy’s fast-paced and witty writing style.
Kennedy is doing a book tour in New England in the coming fortnight.
Monday, 24 March, 6 P.M.
Harvard Coop
Cambridge
Tuesday, 25 March, 7 P.M.
Papercuts Bookshop
Jamaica Plain
Reserve space here
Thursday, 27 March, 7 P.M.
RJ Julia
Madison, Connecticut
Reserve space here
Monday, 7 April, 6 P.M.
Griswold Memorial Library
Colrain
3 comments:
OH NO, not Margaret Gage again...!
I wonder. Would the rides of Revere and the others be considered "top secret' today by the Sgialgate participants?
One hallmark of Trumpism is that questions of secrecy, legality, and success depend entirely on whether Trump and his team do it. If Trump tries to hijack U.S. foreign policy to help his reelection campaign or his ego, it’s a “perfect call.” But if a federal employee carries out a policy his administration disagrees with (or simply no longer agrees with), that’s corruption. Details about flights that administration officials posted boastful videos about are supposedly legally protected, but details of upcoming military operations aren’t close to classified.
To understand how Trump and his team would view Revere’s ride, therefore, we’d need to figure out whether they were for limited constitutional government or monarchical rule. The last two months have shown they’re thinking like a king and his court.
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