American Aurora · A Democratic-Republican Returns · the Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It

200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. Its editors were arrested by the federal government. One editor died awaiting trial.

The story of this newspaper is the story of America.

THE AMERICAN HISTORY WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO KNOW

In this monumental story of two newspaper editors whom Presidents Washington and Adams sought to jail for sedition, American Aurora offers a new and heretical vision of this nation's beginnings, from the vantage point of those who fought in the American Revolution to create a democracy—and lost.

"BEST HISTORY, 1997" --Los Angeles Times

"A magnificent

achievement, AMERICAN AURORA is both an original work of history and a

rousing good story... The early days of the Republic will be much better

understood by the publication of this remarkable book." --Doris Kearns

Goodwin, winner, 1995 Pulitzer Prize in History

"Richard N.

Rosenfeld's strange and remarkable book American Aurora ... offers new

and revealing perspectives on the period--subverting the heroic image of

George Washington as General and President, catching as never before

the ways the lure of the monarchy was felt.... These are no mean

accomplishments." --Gordon S. Wood, winner, 1993 Pulitzer Prize in

History, Times Literary Supplement

"Richard Rosenfeld's story,

which reads almost like fiction ... is revisionist history, fresh from

its thorough grounding in the sources, brilliantly conceived and

written. It is a remarkable retelling of the early years of the United

States....This is an original work of history and told by a master

storyteller." -Esmond Wright, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Rosenfeld's

monumental book American Aurora ... is an important book.... It should

be read by all who prize truth over myths, individual freedom over

enforced national consensus, democracy over aristocracy." --The Nation

"A

riveting narrative of an epochal political struggle ... American Aurora's first-hand evidence is as irrefutable as its rough-and tumble

you-are-there immediacy is irresistible.... A tale of high drama that

leaves the stately mythology of our Founding Fathers' wisdom and

omniscience shattered." --Dallas Morning News

"What a daring, remarkable book it is.... the book succeeds...." --St. Louis Post Dispatch

Richard N. Rosenfeld is an independent scholar and the co-author (with Edmund S. Morgan) of the book, American

Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our

Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It. He writes for numerous publications including Harper's.