Happy Independence Day from America! A quick book recommendation: “A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign,” by Edward Larson.

While not really about the Revolutionary War, this is a fascinating story about the turn-of-the-century election after George Washington essentially made it clear that he would not become king, and the (often ugly) battle that unfolded between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in the campaign to be President No. 2