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    WHEN PARANOIA CAME INTO STYLE

    May 04, 2021 2 minutes

    A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution

    By David Head

    Pegasus, 2019; $28.95

    saw a gaggle of amateur militiamen handily defeat the world’s preeminent military professionals. Fact could not differ more strenuously. Success went explains the myth’s origins and how, 18 months after Yorktown, mythopoesis nearly undermined the revolution.

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