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GET LIT: Win a copy of Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries

POSTED: Monday, May 10, 2010, 8:30 PM

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 496 pp., $30, May 11

Attention all American history nerds/lovers of the HBO miniseries John Adams: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Rakove is coming to the National Constitution Center tomorrow night at 6:30 to discuss our country's roots — and its future. (He'll also be Jon Stewart's guest on tonight's Daily Show if you're looking for a sneak peek.) Here's a blurb about his new book, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, from the NCC's website:

Rakove tells the stories of the founders before they were fully formed leaders, as individuals whose lives were radically altered by the explosive events of the mid-1770s. They were ordinary men who became extraordinary. Spanning the two crucial decades of the country's birth, from 1773 to 1792, Rakove uses little-known stories of these famous (and not so famous) men to capture — in a way no single biography ever could — the intensely creative period of the republic's founding. From the Boston Tea Party to the First Continental Congress, from Trenton to Valley Forge, from the ratification of the Constitution to the disputes that led to our two-party system, he explores the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy and society that shaped our nation.

To win a copy, answer the following trivia question:

What were the four Intolerable Acts passed by the British parliament in 1774?

E-mail your answers to carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win! Jack Rakove talk, Tue., May 11, 6:30 p.m., free (registration required), National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., 215.409.6700, constitutioncenter.org.

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