About the Author

Andrew O’Shaughnessy is the former Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.

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The Men Who Lost America

The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? In The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire, historian Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, he dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory.

Media

Presentations and interviews with author Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.

Press

Press and reviews for The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind and The Men Who Lost America.

Awards and Honors

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire, winner of the 2014 George Washington Book Prize.