Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution - H. W. Brands

H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, including The General vs. the President , a New York Times bestseller, and The Zealot and the Emancipator , his most recent book. Two of his biographies, The First American and Traitor to His Class , were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.