Review of The Great Upheaval

By Robert Dallek

In his book April 1865, Jay Winik demonstrated a capacity to write compellingly about familiar events in America’s most costly war. His new book is a cinematic reconstruction of the birth of the modern world between 1788 and 1800. He brilliantly moves across a world stage, capturing men, women, and tumultuous events – revolution, war, political strife – that he persuasively calls The Great Upheaval. No interested in history will want to miss it.”