A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with bra
A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America’s founding When we think of the American Revolution, we think of brave patriots coming together to resist a tyrannical ruler in defense of n
This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition soci
