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BOOK AUTHOR | MAGAZINE WRITER | TRAVELER<\/p>\n<\/div>

ANDREW LAWLER<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

New from Andrew Lawler<\/p><\/h1><\/div>

“Absorbing” says The New York Times.<\/i> Just in time for the 250th anniversary of American independence, A Perfect Frenzy<\/i> provides a fresh way to see the Revolution. This fast-paced drama, featuring famous patriots like Washington and Jefferson as well as a host of lesser-known figures, follows the impossible choices, brave acts, and ruthless deeds that shaped the nation’s founding.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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New from Andrew Lawler<\/h1><\/div>

“Absorbing” says The New York Times.<\/em> Just in time for the 250th anniversary of American independence, A Perfect Frenzy<\/i> provides a fresh way to see the Revolution. This fast-paced drama, featuring famous patriots like Washington and Jefferson as well as a host of lesser-known figures, follows the impossible choices, brave acts, and ruthless deeds that shaped the nation’s founding.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Andrew Lawler<\/h1><\/div>

Andrew Lawler is the author of four books: A Perfect Frenzy<\/em>, Under Jerusalem<\/em>, The Secret Token<\/em>, and Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? <\/em>He also has written more than a thousand newspaper and magazine articles, and his byline has appeared in The New York Times<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em>, National Geographic<\/em>, and Smithsonian.<\/em> A contributing writer for Science<\/em> and a contributing editor for Archaeology<\/em>, he is the recipient of several awards for writing and reporting.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Lawler<\/h1><\/div>

Andrew Lawler is the author of four books: A Perfect Frenzy<\/em>, Under Jerusalem<\/em>, The Secret Token<\/em>, and Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? <\/em>He also has written more than a thousand newspaper and magazine articles, and his byline has appeared in The New York Times<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em>, National Geographic<\/em>, and Smithsonian.<\/em> A contributing writer for Science<\/em> and a contributing editor for Archaeology<\/em>, he is the recipient of several awards for writing and reporting.<\/p>\n

Read recent magazine articles by Andrew Lawler here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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A Perfect Frenzy
<\/b>A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded far to the south that proved every bit as decisive as the battles of Lexington and Concord in uniting the colonies against Britain. Virginia, the largest, wealthiest, and most populous province in British North America, was governed by Lord Dunmore, a pugnacious Scottish earl. Outgunned and outmanned, he allied with the colony\u2019s enslaved Africans, who made up two of every five Virginians and were eager to gain their freedom. Dunmore emancipated those who would fight for King George III and sent them into battle against their patriot owners as part of the first corps of Black soldiers in American history. <\/span>The crisis that gripped Virginia in 1775 and 1776 has long been relegated to the background by historians, in part because it is the story of two liberty-seeking groups of Americans fighting against one another. This book shows how the upheaval in Virginia shaped the course of the Revolution–and sheds light on the issues or race, gun control, immigration, and the split between city and country that continue to divide the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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