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1778: The Seduction of Independence
by Russell Meyers
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How could it be that it was breasts and booze alone that saved Colonial America in 1778? In his latest offering best-selling historian and thirteen-time Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Meyers explains this ambiguity as he follows George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson on a bawdy and rousing 18th century war-time sexual romp. Just how did a group of horny dirt farmers who spent most of their time drunk, chasing tail and growing tobacco defeat the world's greatest empire? As Meyers plainly shows, they did it with a great deal of ingenuity, slave-labor, alcohol, panache—and, more than anything else, blind stinking luck. Although brief by Meyers standards, this is a narrative magnum opus, exhibiting the hallmarks the author is known for: fascinating subject matter, expert research, and meticulous, scorching first-person sexual detail.

Throughout, Meyers deftly captures both sides of the conflict. The British commander, Lord General William Howe, perhaps not fully accepting that the rebellion could succeed, and as Meyers notes "who was probably gay", underestimated the Americans' cunning and sexual hungers. In turn, the outclassed and over-sexed Americans used the cover of night, beer, and an abiding passion for huge breasts to astonishing effect. Thomas Paine, for example, trekked 300 drunken miles over harsh winter terrain from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, simply to sleep with a buxom Tory bar-maid known as "Big Liz". His fixation on her 45DD breasts fortuitously enabled the American forces, who had come looking for him, to seize Dorchester Heights, thus winning the whole city.

The lack of luck and boobs, Meyers writes, played against the Brits—Howe's obsession with his powdered wig and Angolan towel-boy, for example, stalled a British counterattack at Boston, and more than once Washington staged improbable and daring escapes from various brothels and haystacks when he might have been captured and the war lost.

Meyers keenly renders obscure historical and sexual detail: Jefferson's penchant for big breasted slave girls, George Washington's famed 18 inch penis, Benjamin Franklin's French spanking fetish—and it certainly didn't help the British that it took six weeks to transport prostitutes to and from London. Simply put, this is sexually oriented historical writing at its greatest from one of its best and brightest.
--B. Bleu-- This text refers to the Softcover edition.

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A Very Good Year, October 12, 2006

Reviewer: H. Reems (Burlington, VT) - See all my reviews

While this book shouldn't be required reading for high school students, it is stimulating, fascinating and gripping adult reading. It dispels all the cartoonish notions of Christian sexual prudery concerning our founding fathers and the American Revolution that have become ingrained into today's conservative and right-leaning American culture. What a tapestry of booze and boobies providence wove to birth this great nation. Exceptional.

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Valley Forge Pup-tent ... in my pants!!!, May 28, 2006

Reviewer: P. North "breast-fiend" (West Coast, USA) - See all my reviews

Russell Meyers is known as the horndog storyteller of American history with many Pulitzer Prizes for Biography (including "Ben Franklin's Big-Butt British Adventure" 1998 and "Baron von Steuben in Bondage" 1992) and an International Book Award ("Perversions on Horseback" 1981). What many readers may not fully realize is that he is a researcher par excellence as evidenced by the twenty-five years he spent reading original documents, boozing and traveling to the relevant historical sites. Now he utilizes some of his previous background research for "Ben Franklin" to tell the tale of the most crucial year of the American Revolution. In "1778: The Seduction of Independence" Mr. Meyers makes clear how close the Revolution came to failing. British impotency and Our Founding Father's appetites were the difference.

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