RW250 Roundtable Book Group June selection
Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent...and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong by Bob Thompson is the next RW250 Roundtable Book Group selection.
The discussion will take place on June 4 at 2 p.m. on Zoom.
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The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University is once again joining RW250 as a cosponsor. Dr. Michael Crowder, ITPS Public Historian, will moderate the discussion.
Revolutionary Roads takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and might have been lost. You’ll ride shotgun with Bob Thompson as he puts more than 20,000 miles on his car, not to mention his legs; walks history-shaping battlefields from Georgia to Quebec; and hangs out with passionate lovers of revolutionary history whose vivid storytelling and deep knowledge of their subject enrich his own. Publisher’s Weekly said “Thompson enriches his well-chosen primary sources with entertaining profiles of museum curators and historical reenactors and down-home turns of phrase…The result is an eclectic yet cogent and cohesive account of the American Revolution.”
The choice of Revolutionary Roads was made partly because the author visited the Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters (OHRH) in Hartsdale and interviewed Susan Seal, President of the Friends of OHRH, about the house, the French-American encampment that surrounded it, and the dramatic decision made there on August 14, 1781, which set the stage for the crucial victory at the siege and battle in Yorktown, VA.
Get your copy from a local library or bookseller and plan to join us on June 4.