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"History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution" by Mercy Otis Warren. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.

Warren's spectacularly detailed account of the American War of Independence remains an authoritative and much-read source on the subject: this edition contains all three volumes, complete with notes. First published in 1805, when memories of the Revolutionary War were still fresh in the minds of many Americans, Mercy Otis Warren's history became a sensation for its intense detail and depth. Aiming to give a precise, blow by blow account of the War of Independence, Warren ventures through the major turning points of the conflict. She takes us from the many causes of the Revolution itself, through the principle battles, to the eventual surrender and defeat of the British, and finally the establishment of the United States of America. Warren personally lived through the entire conflict, and was good friends with several of the men who were to become the Founding Fathers of the United States. Her connections, assertive nature and prominent place in the nascent colonial society allowed Warren to publish a number of works which were popular. Her fiction, much of it based upon the upheavals of the era, as well as her spirited critiques of the British administration, had a sizable impact on those fighting for independence. Historians in the modern day dispute the facts behind some of Warren's accounts given her lack of neutrality: she was after all a gifted propagandist who used her talents to galvanize the revolutionary war effort. Furthermore Warren held controversial opinions; in particular, she regarded the Battle of Yorktown as an overblown event, rather than the final skirmish that gloriously concluded with the Revolution's success. However, there can be no doubt that this chronicle is one of the most thorough accounts of the American War of Independence. Painstakingly crafted and only published when Warren was of advanced years, it remains a landmark history of the war and continues to be cited by modern scholars and historians in the present day. When Warren's history was published in 1805, the reaction was generally one of laudatory praise. A noted exception was John Adams - who receives personal criticism in the work - who lambasted it as inaccurate and oversimple. Benjamin Franklin however greatly enjoyed the work, bought numerous copies, and appraised it as follows: ..".(my) anticipation of her truthful account of the last thirty years that will furnish a more instructive lesson to mankind than any equal period known in history."

What is believed to be the first history of the American Revolution by an American was written by a woman. Mercy Otis Warren was the wife of Massachusetts revolutionary leader General James Warren.