Who Were the Tories?

As I say in the Prologue, every country has a Grand Story, and there are always stories under the Grand Story.

Infuriating, maddening dissent is an old American tradition--which the Tories began.

Tories lived and died in the underground of America’s Grand Story, fighting to keep America ruled by the King. They were all Americans, and they introduced the nation’s first generation of politicians to a truth that would endure: Within the tapestry known as "We the people," there would always be strands of a defiant, passionate minority.