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Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years of mutual embitterment that preceded the outbreak of America's war for independence in 1775. It was a tragedy of errors, in which both sides shared responsibility for a conflict that cost the lives of at least twenty thousand Britons and a still larger number of Americans. The British and the colonists failed to see how swiftly they were drifting toward violence until the process had gone beyond the point of no return.
About the Author
Nick Bunker is the author of three non-fiction books, including An Empire On The Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History and won the 2015 George Washington Prize. His most recent book, Young Benjamin Franklin: the Birth of Ingenuity, which was published by Knopf in September 2018, tells the story of Franklin's origins and early life and his emergence as America's first great scientist. Born in London and educated in the UK at King's College, Cambridge and then in New York at Columbia University, Bunker began his professional career as a newspaper reporter in Liverpool in the 1980s and then moved to the Financial Times. After leaving journalism he worked in the stock market and in corporate finance, chiefly for the HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. A keen mountain walker, he now lives in the English cathedral city of Lincoln with his wife Sue and their otterhound, Mercury.
