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The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty (Simon & Schuster America Collection)

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A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Revolt uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority.

In 1791, at the frontier of western Pennsylvania, local gangs of insurgents with blackened faces started to attack federal officials, beating and torturing the tax collectors who attempted to collect the first federal tax ever laid on an American product—whiskey. To the hard-bitten people of the depressed and violent West, the whiskey tax paralyzed their rural economies, putting money in the coffers of already rich creditors and industrialists. To Alexander Hamilton, the tax used to be the important thing to industrial growth. To President Washington, it used to be the catalyst for the first-ever deployment of a federal army, a military action that would suppress an insurgency against the American government.

With an unsparing have a look at both Hamilton and Washington, journalist and historian William Hogeland offers a provocative, in-depth analysis of this forgotten revolution and suppression. That specialize in the battle between government and the early-American evangelical movement that advocated western secession, The Whiskey Revolt is an intense and insightful examination of the roots of federal power and essentially the most fundamental conflicts that ignited—and continue to smolder—in america.

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