November 04, 2011

Books

Patriots & Vandals

Robert K. Landers

American TempestHow the Boston Tea Party Sparked a RevolutionHarlow Giles UngerDa Capo Press, $26, 288 pp. Defiance of the PatriotsThe Boston Tea Party & the Making of AmericaBenjamin L. CarpYale University Press, $30, 311 pp.   In the curious spectacle of avowed conservatives drawing inspiration from an eighteenth-century mob’s illegal destruction of valuable comm (...)


 

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