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Chicago Tribune -- "60 Best Reads for Right Now" * St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- "50 Fall Books You Should Consider Reading"A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.In one of the most "exciting and engaging" (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.For more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance, and above all, its meaning.