The CauseIn one of the most "exciting and engaging" (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War. For more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution,