Join or Die: The Colonies in Turmoil
With her conversational direct style, Elizabeth Richards helps distant events come alive
and demonstrates the connection between the ideals and practices of our Founders and
the liberties we enjoy today. As a primer of crucial events, it is a winner.
""Dr. Charlie Self
Professor of Church History
Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
Senior Advisor, The Acton Institute for Religion and Liberty
This is a book I wish I could have assigned to my students when I was teaching US History
to high school students. It is highly readable and suitable for students with limited
English language skills and even for younger students. The author begins by describing
the competing efforts of Britain, France, and Spain to establish footholds in America
and how Britain gained greater domination than the other countries. (see book 1, the
Founding of a Nation: The Story of the Thirteen Colonies)
This book provides depth of detail of this war to achieve independence that I have not
seen before: the many battles fought, both won and lost; the geographic extent of the
war, from what is now Vermont to Georgia from the Atlantic seaboard to the area that
would become Illinois and the enormous cost in Life and treasure.
This book gives meaning and substance to our Declaration of Independence and our
Constitution, which we so seldom read, but when we do read it is often with only
superficial appreciation of the effort and sacrifice that went into establishing them as
the foundation of a new country ""the United States of America.
""Alan Wadsworth
Retired Social Studies teacher and school administrator