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Paul Revere's midnight ride is a legendary event in American history - yet it has been largely ignored by scholars, and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious study of this event - what led to it, what really happened, what followed - uncovering a truth more remarkable than the many myths it has inspired. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer has created an exciting narrative that offers new insight into the coming of the American ...
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Paul Revere's midnight ride is a legendary event in American history - yet it has been largely ignored by scholars, and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious study of this event - what led to it, what really happened, what followed - uncovering a truth more remarkable than the many myths it has inspired. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer has created an exciting narrative that offers new insight into the coming of the American Revolution. From research in British and American archives, the author unravels a plot that no novelist would dare invent - a true story of high drama and deep suspense, of old-fashioned heroes and unvarnished villains, of a beautiful American spy who betrayed her aristocratic British husband, of violent mobs and marching armies, of brave men dying on their doorsteps, of high courage, desperate fear, and the destiny of nations. The narrative is constructed around two thematic lines. One story centers on the American patriot Paul Revere; the other, on British General Thomas Gage. Both were men of high principle who played larger roles than recent historiography has recognized. Thomas Gage was not the Tory tyrant of patriot legend, but an English Whig who believed in liberty and the rule of law. In 1774 and 1775, General Gage's advice shaped the fatal choices of British leaders, and his actions guided the course of American events. Paul Revere was more than a "simple artizan," as his most recent biographer described him fifty years ago. The author presents new evidence that revolutionary Boston was a world of many circles - more complex than we have known. Paul Revere and his friend Joseph Warren ranged more widely through those circles than any other leaders. They became the linchpins of the Whig movement. On April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere played that role in a manner that has never been told before. He and William Dawes were not the only midnight riders to ca

David Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the outbreak of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than the simple artisan and messenger of tradition.

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Paul Maier
"Paul Revere's Ride" both to inform and to entertain readers as it carefully corrects old myths and introduces us anew to one of the most deceptively familiar stories of the American past. Even the appendixes are interesting. Those are reasons enough to take up Mr. Fischer's invitation, to "put Paul Revere on his horse again" and "take the midnight ride seriously as an historical event." The story he tells can stand on its own without labored sets of contingencies. -- New York Times
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It is rare when a scholarly history will appeal to a general readership, but such is the case with this book. Part biography of Revere and part history of the battles of Lexington and Concord, it places the ``midnight ride'' in the broad context of American resistance to Great Britain as just one of many similar actions taken by Revere and others. Particularly good is Fischer's (history, Brandeis Univ.) description of the civilian reaction to the British march to Concord and his exploration of the ``spontaneous'' rising of the New England militia to fight the British. Fischer's ulterior motive is to return contingency to its central importance in the historical process--to restore the ``causal power of particular actions and contingent events.'' In the process he has written a meticulously researched and wonderfully evocative narrative that will be enjoyed by history lovers and scholars alike.-- David B. Mattern, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
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YA-A whole book about a minor incident? You bet, and a terrific book, at that. Fischer's exhaustive research shows that Revere played an important role in pre-Revolutionary Boston that included, but was by no means limited to, his midnight ride. The author shows how Longfellow's poem deliberately distorted the facts in order to suit the political climate of the times; the real story surrounding Revere's role and the battles of Concord and Lexington is infinitely more interesting because it involves planning, courage, danger, suspense, and national destiny. This is exciting history, and Fischer adeptly paints it in stirring tones while giving background information on Revere and General Thomas Gage. For the rest of their lives, people remembered where they were when Revere made his famous midnight ride, as readers will remember this fascinating account.-Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA
Gilbert Taylor
An iconic patriot, or an insignificant courier--Fischer plays these opposing images of the Bostonian silversmith against the middle in a lively reconstruction of the man and his role in the outbreak of war on Lexington Green. Supported by meticulous research, but using a brisk pace, Fischer begins his recounting of "contingent events" with the British decision in late 1774 to seize colonial munitions. The British commander, General Gage, had mounted several raids before the fateful one on Concord; and Revere in response had galloped hither and yon, keeping his fellow Whigs alert to the next attempt to disarm them. The midnight rides there were two other messengers besides Revere and the bloody clashes on April 19 unfold in a volley-by-volley drama that factors in all known participants, including a few spies unknown to this day. Once celebrated as an event that galvanized, much like Fort Sumter, each side in the irreconcilable imperial/colonial dispute, Revere's period of glory has perhaps been unduly relegated to obscurity many school texts don't mention him. This balanced recounting of his activities restores his importance--and the feel for the motivations of his compatriots and their antagonists. An enjoyable work that doesn't compromise its scholarly accuracy.
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"Fischer knows how to grip the reader as few historians do....Fischer succeeds brilliantly in re-creating the milieu of the 1770s."--The Commercial Appeal (Memphis)

"This well-written, carefully researched, and interesting book dispels much of the myth and legend that has grown up around Paul Revere's famous ride and has replaced it with an exciting account of the events on those early spring days of April, 1775....A good read as well as an excellent reference."--KLIATT, September 1995

"In one of the best recent books on the Revolution, Fischer takes what might be the most famous episode from the war and carefully sifts accumulating legend from a substantial body of fact heretofore little recognized about the famous 'midnight right.'"--The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star

"Fischer has provided a nice update of one of the semi-mythological events associated with the American revolutionary experience. What is most impressive about the book is the scholarly apparatus indluded. Revere is now a human figure acting out an historical role without mythology to get in the way. For contextural biography, this is a first-rate volume."--Gerald Michael Schnabel, Bemidji State University

"The action in this exciting history illuminates New England's culture--especially the ways that it differed from old England's--on the eve of the American Revolution....Fischer's details are meticulous, and provide an irresistible sense of immediacy as a slumbering countryside is wakened to war."--The New Yorker

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195088472
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/1994
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 464
  • Lexile: 1280L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 9.10 (w) x 6.20 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. His books include the highly acclaimed Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America and Growing Old in America.

Biography

A professor at Brandeis University, David Hackett Fischer is the author of several noted books on history, including Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement, The Great Wave: Price Movements in Modern History, Paul Revere's Ride, and Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. He is co-editor, with James M. McPherson, of the Pivotal Moments in American History series published by Oxford University Press. A graduate of Princeton and Johns Hopkins Universities, he divides his time between homes in Massachusetts and Maine.

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    1. Hometown:
      Wayland, Massachusetts
    1. Date of Birth:
      December 2, 1935
    2. Place of Birth:
      Baltimore, Maryland
    1. Education:
      A.B., Princeton University, 1958; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1962

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 30, 2009

    Paul Revere's Ride (David Hackett Fischer)

    I have read many books on the American Revolution; no one can write like David Hackett Fischer! This book provides a detailed biograph of Paul Revere's life and his participation in the war for independence. Fischer debunks the myth of Paul Revere's solitary ride, describing the collective participation of the Americans from the infamous signal at the North Church to the arrival of Minutemen from many areas of Massachusetts to the coordinated attacks on the British as they retreated from Lexington. Alvin Gritz

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 22, 2007

    Masterpiece

    The author's writing style is second to none for this genre. His breadth of knowledge and attention to detail is stunning. Yet, unlike far too many authors of early American history, Fischer's narrative flows exceedingly effectively, and is highly organized. Most of all, Fischer wholly avoids the kind of smug, needlessly-esoteric, choppy, poorly-written, political-agenda-riddled prose that plagues the vast majority of his fellow academics. I have read at least 100 books on the subject of the American Revolution and this is easily in the top 5, if not in first place.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 2, 2003

    Go along for the Ride...

    One of the best historical books on the early years of the American Revolution I have ever read. Exremely informative and yet still entertaining. It belongs on everyone's bookshelf.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 28, 2012

    Great book on the beginning of the Revolution

    This book is fantastic. All of Fischer's books are worthy of a Pulitzer prize, and Paul Revere's Ride is no exception. This book is a biography of Paul Revere, and better yet a biography of that famous April morning in 1775 when the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. Most of us who choose to read this book know by now that Revere did NOT say "The British are coming! The British are coming!" But what did he say? To whom did he say it? Did he act alone? How far and long was the ride? What was unexpected about this book was the compassionate and robust description Fischer tells of the King's men, the men who were tasked with dampening the increasingly rebellious colonials around Boston. Not only are the events of that morning eminently fascinating, Fischer's storytelling ability is top notch. No need to be a scholar to enjoy Paul Revere's Ride.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 15, 2006

    The real history of Lexington and Concord

    This is a great book. I always considered myself reasonably well educated, but I was almost completely unfamiliar with what really happened on April 18-19, 1775, in Boston, Lexington, and Concord. I visited Lexington recently, and was told by a volunteer at the local Visitors' Center that David Hackett Fisher's book is the most authoritative work on the subject. This is a must read for anyone interested in the Revolutionary Period.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2013

    Great read

    Fatastic read. Well written by a great author .

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    If you ever wondered what it was like..

    My son bought this book for me for Christmas, and I am glad he did! I highly recommend this book to anyone who lets their mind wonder; "What was it like to be there..." <BR/>Fischer's research on the subject matter is outstanding. He uses historical documents, journals, town records, military manuals, as well as a plethora of other resources to paint a picture of a segment of our history like none I have read. <BR/>Read it, you won't be disappointed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2000

    Specific detail about Revere

    I am a very big fan of Paul Revere. The Author of this book really concentrated on not only Paul Revere's famous ride, but also gives us specific details about the battle of Lexington and Concord. Mr.Fischer also wrote wonderfully about frustrated mind and dilenma of General Gage (the biggest enemy of Massachussetts colonists). I was very satified by his research and writing. The chapter which the New England militia (minute mens) kept attacking British troops is the most exciting part of this book.

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