<p><b>Fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt.</b></p><p>Runner-up of the Journal of The American Revolution Book of the Year Award by the Journal of The American Revolution</p><p>"Fake news" is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a "post-truth" era. Their fears, however, were not fixated on social media or clickbait, but rather on peoples'' increasing reliance on reading news gathered from foreign newspapers. In <i>Misinformation Nation</i>, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation.</p><p>News was the lifeblood of early American politics, but newspaper printers had few reliable sources to report on events from abroad. Accounts of battles and
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