American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783

In American Crisis, William M. Fowler, Jr. vividly chronicles this critical, rarely documented period through the eyes of those who lived and influenced it. He reveals the internal and personal tensions that paralyzed both the British government and Congress, antagonized loyalists and patriots still reeling from the years of conflict, and roiled the army from its leadership through the ranks. In doing so, he brings original insight to the events and forces through which our independence was preserved.

William M. Fowler Jr. is Distinguished Professor of History at Northeastern University. He served as Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1998-2005. He is the author of Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America; Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783--1815; The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock; and Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan.

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