An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America: Part First, Containing an Historical Outline of Their Merits and Wrongs as Colonies; and Strictures Upon the Calumnies of the British WritersOver the hot, noisy Fourth of July weekend a seventeen-year-old youth, seeking independence from his unethical parents, allies himself with the town oddball, a tough politician enjoying temporary oblivion, to stop a gang of young thugs from carrying out a holdup. |
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