Divided Loyalties

by Richard M. Ketchum
Category: "U.S. History - Political"
Pages:386
Year of Publication:2002
Date Added:08/07/2006
Date Read:01/22/2003
Notes:Ketchum uses New York City as the backdrop to describe the events that ultimately led to war, beginning with British Prime Minister Walpole's policy of "salutary neglect" (i.e., the Colonies were best served by avoiding war, encouraging trade, and keeping taxes low) to George III's efforts to tax the Colonies to pay war debts and his rejection of a final peace proposal in 1775. Ketchum uses two prominent New York families, the DeLanceys and the Livingstons, one with loyalist tendencies and the other patriotic, to illustrate the complex issues that not only divided the country but split families and set neighbor against neighbor.
My Rating: 7

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Review - Divided Loyalties

The politics and personalities in New York City in the years before the Revolutionary War with side trips to other colonies and England. Well-written but sometimes dragging.
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