In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.

and British and American troops had battled for the first time at Bunker Hill. Revolutionary sentiment had been brewing throughout the American colonies for some time and was near boiling in the ...

while some even supported the British forces. For others the Revolution became something of a religious crusade. Jonathan Mayhew, the pastor of the West Church in Boston, gave moral sanction to ...

while some even supported the British forces. For others the Revolution became something of a religious crusade. Jonathan Mayhew, the pastor of the West Church in Boston, gave moral sanction to ...