The Revolutionaries (w/ Robert Sullivan) - #4

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For Christmas 2024, I was gifted Robert Sullivan’s delightful My American Revolution : A Modern Expedition Through History’s Forgotten Battlegrounds . I devoured it within 24 hours. It is no exaggeration to say that the book is responsible as anything else for this little Semiquincetennial miniseries you are (hopefully!) enjoying. As you will hear in this episode, Sullivan at the time of publication (2012) was not unlike I am now – a south Brooklyn writer dude & dad in his mid-50s who enjoyed walking around and noticing that whole neglected swaths of the neighborhood were actually important sites during and after the Revolutionary War. The spirit of the book, and hopefully this miniseries,…