Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.
James Kirby Martin earned his Ph.D. in American History at the University of Wisconsin. He is now Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Houston. He has held named visiting professorships at The Citadel and at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Martin is the author of a number of books including the award-winning Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered (1997) and A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1783, the latter co-authored with Mark Edward Lender. In 2019 he published Insurrection: The American Revolution and Its Meaning (2019). Martin serves as a historian advisor to the Oneida Indian Nation of New York. He lives in Houston with his wife, Karen.
