Let me caution in strictest terms against
publishing what I write. The nation is
not ready to face the truth about itself
that an honest story of the Revolution
must mirror.
Fifty years later, a New Jersey doctor
thus recalls the great event of his life-the
upheaval that created the United States
of America. His honest story unflinchingly
depicts the panic and cowardice, the
greed and brutality that were part of the
war for independence. It also celebrates
the Americans who fought this evil under-
tow and struggled to cope with the chaos
of a war most of them never wanted. At
the center of the drama are Liberty
Tavern, on the main road between Perth
Amboy and Philadelphia, and its enig-
matic owner, Jonathan Gifford, ex-eaptain
of the King s Own Regiment. For him the
Revolution is an outburst of dangerous
wildness he senses and fears in the Amer-
ican character. But he cannot escape it.
The only two people whom he l~ves, his
stepson Kemble and stepdaughter Kate,
are passionately involved in it, on oppo-
site sidey. Then an extraordinary woman,
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