It’s not been an easy year for Woody Holton.
As the Peter and Bonnie McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, Holton has scored a number of easily enviable achievements: a Bancroft Prize for his 2009 biography Abigail Adams, being named a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007 for Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, a Guggenheim fellowship and another fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The path for his latest book, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, should, with those preludes, have been strewed with roses.
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