Author: Kammen, Michael G.,
Title: A Rope of Sand: the colonial agents, British politics and the American Revolution.
Description: NY, Vintage, (1974). VG PB. For 20 yrs before the American Revolution, 37 men acted as paid agents or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. A detailed study of them by a Pulitzer-prize-winning historian, of their activites and of the gradual breakdown of communications between the colonies and the mother country, until the link became "a rope of sand".

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