This Land of Promise

‘Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time’ BART VAN ES
'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today’s toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Reviews

EARLY PRAISE FOR THIS LAND OF PROMISE:
‘A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today’s toxic debates… Lockwood writes a vivid, fluent prose and moves all these remarkable tales along at a cracking pace’
Daily Telegraph, ***** review
‘Compelling and humane’
Independent, Top Reads for June
PRAISE FOR LOCKWOOD’S PREVIOUS BOOKS:
‘Matthew Lockwood is a master storyteller, deftly showcasing the lives of ordinary people alongside the impact of historical ideas and events … enthralling, provocative, and wonderfully enlightening’
Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana
‘Lockwood … has a keen eye for a good yarn, and there are enthralling glimpses here of individual lives buffeted by the American Revolution’
Alex von Tunzelmann, New York Times Book Review
‘A breakthrough popular history, written with a novelist's eye for detail and atmosphere’
Publishers Weekly
‘A stunning narrative’
Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats