A Renegade History of the United States

Popular historian Thaddeus Russell offers a highly provocative and absorbing new perspective on America''s history that will turn convention on its head and is sure to elicit as much controversy as it does support.

Russell shows that drunkards, laggards, prostitutes, and pirates were the real heroes of the American Revolution. Slaves worked less and had more fun than free men. Prostitutes, not fem...