The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America, the first modern constitutional liberal democracy.
This book shows that we Americans have more in common with our enemies than we often choose to believe. We sometimes exhibit the behaviors we claim to abhor. Our efforts to contain or defeat our enemies can result in hypocrisy and hysteria, both of which percolate throughout the novel.