{"id":7290,"date":"2017-09-02T00:14:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T05:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2017-08-31T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T19:17:32","slug":"great-resource-on-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"GREAT RESOURCE ON AMERICAN HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My general rule that so far holds up is this: Take the total number of pages of a book and divide by two.\u00a0 If my marginal notes exceed that number, then the book, though I may have some serious disagreements with it, was worth reading. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this case, Wood&#8217;s little book on the American Revolution is 166 pages long.\u00a0 My markings came in at over 150.\u00a0 This was an extremely worthwhile read.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I read a lot of American history, but am always looking for resources to better connect events and people.\u00a0 Wood&#8217;s book does not disappoint.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are looking for a short book to better understand the American Revolution along with a helpful explanation of the immediate years leading up to the Constitution, it is hard to imagine a better book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Revolution-History-Library-Chronicles\/dp\/0812970411\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Revolution-History-Library-Chronicles\/dp\/0812970411<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"irc_mimg irc_hic i8sIdJ2FkL9w-lvVgf-rIiHk\"><a class=\"irc_mil i3597 i8sIdJ2FkL9w-zixyDjKkw5M\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjOpYfPl4LWAhXphVQKHUmxBNwQjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.penguinrandomhouse.com%2Fbooks%2F193549%2Fthe-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood%2F9780812970418%2F&amp;psig=AFQjCNFA3TelLUtK0C1YfteQASMVUXdDog&amp;ust=1504293359943094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-noload=\"\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwjOpYfPl4LWAhXphVQKHUmxBNwQjRwIBw\" data-cthref=\"\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjOpYfPl4LWAhXphVQKHUmxBNwQjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.penguinrandomhouse.com%2Fbooks%2F193549%2Fthe-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood%2F9780812970418%2F&amp;psig=AFQjCNFA3TelLUtK0C1YfteQASMVUXdDog&amp;ust=1504293359943094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/cover\/9780812970418\" alt=\"Image result for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY WOOD\" width=\"291\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My general rule that so far holds up is this: Take the total number of pages of a book and divide by two.\u00a0 If my marginal notes exceed that number, then the book, though I may have some serious disagreements with it, was worth reading. \u00a0 In this case, Wood&#8217;s little book on the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}