Reviews for Representative Americans

The average rating for Representative Americans based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-09 00:00:00 Mandy Perveiler Loved it! Its a well done alive story of the state from birth to ratifying the Federal Constitution. It follows the Penn family, their work, squabbles, and hardships in governing a land with villains who murder Indians, squatters who argue over land boundaries, a forbidden love and marriage of one of their young men, and after struggling to be good govenors and proprietors and signing the Loyalty Oath still lost their unsold lands to the state. Wonderfully written and brings the family and history of the state to life. Oh, it does a super job of explaining all the laws and enactment of the King of England and why the colonials rebelled, I especially loved the added details of the Boston Tea Party and other revolutionary events.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-28 00:00:00 James P Flynn Well researched and written account regarding the challenges facing the Penn Family as administrators of Colonial Pennsylvania in the years leading up to the American Revolution. The author is to be commended for not just focusing on the factional conflicts in Philadelphia but also for including the enduring problems on Pennsylvania's frontier. These problems include the more familiar squabbles with Native peoples but also with greedy neighbors such as Virginia and Connecticut who actively strove to seize Pennsylvania territory by both guile and force.