Paul Revere's Ride

Paul Revere still rides through the American imagination, the hoofbeats of his horse pounding out a drumbeat for liberty. My father used to tell me about how, when he was a grade-school student at Sacred Heart (a Catholic school in Washington, D.C.), he and the other students would be called upon to......more

Before reading this book, I assumed the story of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride was overblown. A small story that over the years had taken on a life of it's own. After reading Fischer's book, I now realize Revere's story has been undersold, and that the myth has covered over how interesting and importa......more

I wish that David Hackett Fisher wrote a book about every subject I was interested in. He writes the way my mind works--following every rabbit down its hole and yet finds a way of not loosing track of what he's talking about in the midst of all that exploration. He flushes out his subjects and event......more

This is an extremely readable account of Paul Revere’s Ride and the battles and skirmishes that followed at Lexington and Concord. I read this book because the author, David Hackett Fischer, also wrote Washington’s Crossing which is on my favorites shelf and the best book I’ve read about the Revolut......more

This book provides a rock solid biography of Paul Revere focused around his famous “Midnight Ride” that set the stage for America’s Revolutionary War. Author David Hackett Fischer provides a vivid historical account that deviates from simplistic popular myth and his story grasps ones attention just......more