Faithful readers will recall that I often celebrate the Fourth by reviewing something about the American Revolution, usually the latest contribution of David McCullough, Joseph Ellis, Jack Rakove or others who write popular and reasonably scholarly history. I was highly tempted to follow my tradition this year by sharing Nathaniel Philbrick’s recent and highly readable Bunker Hill: The City, The Siege and the Revolution, had I not earlier come across something wildly different in the form of Robert Sullivan’s delightful My American Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, Kindle $11.04), a…
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