Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. By Woody Holton. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 231. $39.95, cloth; $14.95, paper.
本书研究弗吉尼亚通往革命的路径，指出精英并非总是领导革命，有时是被下层推动，并强调种族和阶级在革命形成中的关键作用，对理解美国革命起源的南北差异有重要价值。
Professor Woody Holton makes two important points in this fine study of rebellion: the elite gentlemen of Virginia did not always lead the Revolution, but were sometimes pushed from below, and the Chesapeake is not New England. Those of us who live and teach below the Mason-Dixon Line are often painfully aware that the general outlines of U.S. history are not the history of our region. As this detailed study of Virginia's path to Revolution makes clear, many of the generalizations about the origins of the American Revolution only hold for the northern colonies. But this work's greatest contribution is its carefully researched and documented argument that race and class mattered in creating a Revolution.