Review | 'Revolutionaries': Crisis forced the Founding Fathers into action

Ideas about history are common coin in ongoing exchanges about the character and political direction of the United States. Citizens need to be able to spot counterfeits. Jack Rakove's new book about the American Revolution helps us to do just that. Refreshingly accessible and deeply informed, Revolutionaries is just what you need when someone on the Internet or cable TV offers to give you the ideas about history now being offered by the Tea Party movement in exchange for those you got f...