I’ve found American Revolution books to be a really, really mixed bag. There are basically two kinds:
The kind that portray the Revolution as a glorious uprising of the people against a great injustice, an event that was a war between nations rather than a civil war… and the kind that treat the Revolution as a side theater of a major European conflict, where a hardcore minority led a large minority into independence as opposed to forcing Parliament to compromise. Basically, the Founding Fathers are the Bolsheviks in this version, hijacking an uprising for their own ends.
I’m really not quite sure which history to believe.