“The danger in complacency is that it causes the possessor to ignore as unimportant the local factors and conditions that govern other people with whom it deals. Britons faced with the American Revolution were not interested in Americans or in their magnificent continent reaching from ocean to ocean.”
Tuchman turns her sights homeward to give the reader a deeply insightful view of certain pivotal events of the American Revolution.
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Title: The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 347p
Condition: Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket—in new protector.
Comments: Clean copy
