"The magisterial sweep of Merrill Jensen's The Founding of a Nation remains unchallenged.
Moving masterfully between provincial politics and imperial rivalries, Jensen's splendid account
of the political realities that shaped each of Britain's thirteen mainland colonies during the years
1763-1776 sharply delineates the political context of the coming of the American Revolution." -Ronald Hoffman, Director, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture