Ray Raphael, Author . New Press $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56584-730-9
Historian Raphael contends that the United States' war for independence did not begin in April 1775 with the "shot heard round the world." Rather it began the previous summer in rural towns like Worcester as patriots forced royal...
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Ray Raphael, Author with Christian G. Appy, Martin Binkin, Dan Fahey, Linda Francke, George and Mer New Press $26.95 (354p) ISBN 978-1-56584-921-1
Patrick Henry never said,""Give me liberty or give me death!"" In fact, no record exists of what he said in his powerful call to arms of March 23, 1775. And Molly Pitcher never took her husband's place at a cannon after he fell at the Battle of...
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Ray Raphael, Author . New Press $35 (594p) ISBN 978-1-59558-327-7
In this brisk narrative survey, Raphael offers a history of the events between the outbreak of colonial protest in the 1760s and the ratification of the Constitution in 1788. He does so through the lives of seven people, some, like George Washington,
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Ray Raphael, Author University of Nebraska Press $25 (228p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3888-6
This book of pop sociology attempts to explain modern-day male insecurity by the absence of initiation rituals. In these, boys were elevated to manhood through tribal ceremonies that included often-painful tests of strength and hunting skill,...
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Ray Raphael. Knopf, $27.95 (336) ISBN 978-0-307-59527-0
In a time when many find themselves questioning the efficacy of the presidency (seemingly regardless of party affiliation), the eligibility of future candidates, and the efficiency of the election process, a look back at the origins of the highest...
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Ray Raphael. The New Press, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59558-832-6
As bitter partisanship continues to engulf American politics and society, it is with some relief that one opens Raphael's study of the historical Constitution to find a text more concerned with contextualizing the Founder Fathers than in...
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Ray Raphael, Author, Howard Zinn, Introduction by New Press $25.95 (386p) ISBN 978-1-56584-653-1
California-based writer Raphael (An Everyday History of Somewhere; etc.) offers an accessible study of the American Revolution, as part of a series edited by Howard Zinn, and in the tradition of his A People's History of the United States. Most...
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Ray and Marie Raphael. New Press, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62097-126-0
In this concise, lively narrative, spouses Ray (Constitutional Myths) and Marie Raphael (A Boy from Ireland) identify Massachusetts as the cradle of the colonial rebellion against England. The authors persuasively argue that between December 1773...
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