Books of Summer XII

摘要

This has been an especially good reading summer for devotees of American Colonial and Revolutionary history. First and, in my opinion, the best of the many new books covering this period is Washington's Crossing—by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press, $35). Professor Fischer is a noted historian, whose Albion's Seed, published in 1989, tells the story of those descendants of the British who settled here and helped create the United States. His Paul Revere's Ride has also been widely and justly praised.