Eliot and Eric, joined by journalist and historian Rick Atkinson, discuss the military history of the American revolution. Atkinson explains how King George III and his ministers never understood the American drive for independence and were gripped by strategic misconceptions about how to fight the war, including the notion that there was a silent majority of North Americans who supported the monarchy—despite the fact that the loyalists had mostly fled the colonies to Canada, the Caribbean, or London. They discuss how Americans should think about the meaning of the American revolution today as we celebrate the sesquicentennial of the war for independence.
Eric Edelman
