[Pharmboy]

[kevkrom]

his substantial influence was derived entirely without the assistance or approval of the ruling elite. If people did not depend on the ruling elite for their success, why were the elite needed at all?

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

[Wuli]

ping

[GOP_Party_Animal]

That flag is hung backwards.

[Pharmboy]

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

Beginning with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 held in NYC, the activity shifted to NYC; many riots and a few scuffles broke out between the Patriots and the Brits still in NYC (e.g., see here. After 1770, the street activity shifted to Boston.

[Dead Corpse]

Sounds like an interesting read.

People were killed, private homes were destroyed, and everything was turned upside down.

Deje vu all over again...

[Ohioan]

Interesting, but slightly misleading. While Otis doubtless played a major role in promoting a revolutionary spirit in Massachusetts, what your review describes was not the primary motivation for what occurred in Virginia & Carolina, where the cultural differences--basic from the time when the respective settlers left Europe for different quests--etc., led in other directions..

The reason that the Constitution never empowered the Federal Government to get into the Social engineering we now see among the usurping Fabians, was that there never was a prevailing social philosophy that they all could have agreed to. What they did agree to in 1775-1776, was that they did not want outside interference in their domestic affairs. We need to again agree on that, and boot the Socialist Totalitarians out of power.

William Flax

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like an apology for George Soros.

[11Bush]

The book posits that Otis was the most dangerous kind of man to the feudal oligarchy; his substantial influence was derived entirely without the assistance or approval of the ruling elite.

Reminds me of someone from Alaska, just can't seem to remember who.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Later.

[aculeus]

It sounds great!

[colorado tanker]

Interesting review and it looks like a good read.

This was the beginning of the trend toward bourgeois democracies. By the 1830's Britain and France were headed that direction and by the 1870's most of the rest of Europe was.

It's not surprising it happened here first. The remnants of the feudal system never transplanted to British North America, nor did the British aristocracy. The pinnacle of Colonial society were mostly second and third sons of aristocrats. Most of our "high society" would have been considered upper middle class back in Britain.

People like Otis weren't very interested in the old order back in Britain running things over here.

[decimon]

“...slight-of-hand...”

Tsk, tsk.