Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes

As Paul Staiti reveals in 'Of Arms and Artists', the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period - Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart - were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit.