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From Andrew Lawler, the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, comes A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that uncovers the neglected truth behind the American Revolution, and focuses on the role of Lord Dunmore, the colony’s royal governor, who is commonly portrayed as a villain who opposed the patriots and destroyed the port of Norfolk. A Perfect Frenzy will forever change one’s understanding of the Revolution, and sheds light on the origins of America’s present-day conflicts around race, gun control, immigration, and the divide between urban and rural communities.
Chronicling these stunning and widely overlooked events in full for the first time, A Perfect Frenzy offers a striking new perspective on the American Revolution that reorients our understanding of its causes, highlights the radically different motivations between patriots in the North and South, and reveals the seeds of today’s racial divide.
Andrew Lawler is the author of national bestseller The Secret Token, about the lost colony of Roanoke, and the award-winning Under Jerusalem. As a journalist he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He is a contributing writer for Science and contributing editor for Archaeology magazines. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Book sales and signing will follow the author talk.