Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland’s seventeen books include African Calliope, about Sudan; he has written on Yemen, Uganda, India and other places. He recently published a memoir, Compass Points (Vintage).

1776 and All That

July 3, 2002

Simple hedonism and materialism was not the point of crossing the ocean. Our revolution was better than that.

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