IRB Intro #2

IRB Intro #2 Revolutionary Summer, The Birth of American Independence: Joseph J. Ellis

            The book that I chose for this marking period’s IRB is Revolutionary Summer, written by Joseph J. Ellis.  This book is a narrative and analysis of the summer of 1776 in the war for American Independence.  Joseph J, Ellis is a known historian and writer of early American History who is also the  Pulitzer Prize winning author of  Founding brothers.  Another one of his books, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award.  Ellis uses this book to analyze the summer of 1776 and support his idea that this was the most crucial point in the American Revolution.   With all the fighting and conflict in the Middle East and the riots in Canada, Greece, Russia, Italy and France I thought it would be a good time to use this marking period, and my upcoming TOW posts, to analyze the writers of these revolutions.