THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION By jack Hardy This interesting little
book (Lawrence and Wishart, 3s. 6d.) is a Communist exposition not only of the course, but of the lessons of the American Revolution. Although the lesson is not rubbed in, one is invited, it may be surmised, to see in Mr. Browder anew Samuel Adams, if not a. Washington, and in the (ortho- dox) American Communist Party the spiritual heir of the Fathers of the Revolution. This side of the book is stated too briefly and too allusively for a discussion of its merits to be very profit- able. -More valuable is the account of the Revolution itself, although that, too, suffers from brevity and from the inevitable chopping off of odd and in- convenient members that Marxian his- toriography involves. On the whole, however, the American Revolution goes into the Marxian Procrustean bed with comparative ease. As a pamphlet for modern America and as a reminder that the American Revolution was a real revolution, not an extension of parlia- mentary debate from Westminster to Lexington, this little book is valuable and entertaining.
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