Everybody's Revolution: a New Look at the People Who Won America's FreedomBy Thomas Fleming
Scholastic, 2006. 92pp. Juvenile non-fiction.
When Thomas Fleming was a young man he thought of the American Revolution as a war between British men from England and British men in America. When he grew up and became a scholar, he discovered the contributions of Frenchmen, Irishmen, Germans, Poles, African Americans, and American-born women and children. In these pages you will become acquainted with Hercules Mulligan, a skilled tailor who made red coats for the Redcoats, but was actually a spy for General Washington; with James Forten, the black seaman who refused a free education in England because he wouldn't be a "traitor to [the] interests" of his country; and Agent 13, a woman spy who was captured, died, and was buried without passing her name down to posterity. Pictures from the time complement the fascinating text.
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