A review by abeanbg
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, by Nick Bunker

4.0

A 4.5, which I begrudgingly rounded down. Give us the half star, Goodreads! Bunker does a superb job setting up and exploring how the British political class blundered into the American Revolution. A vast philosophical gap grew between British leaders like Lord North and the egalitarian traders and farmers in Massachusetts. It meant that London had no clue rebellion was coming until it was on their door and then gambled that royal authority could be restored in one battle based on the Jacobite experience. Very fine, illuminating work.