Ben on the JobBen the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out. Ben knew that whenever his thumbs were itching, something orrible was about to happen. Sure enough, on one foggy afternoon of itchy thumbs, the hapless Ben is implicated in criminal activity by the police the kind of mistake it isnt easy to explain. Doing a runner, Ben hides in the basement of a deserted house, where he discovers the

Soon to be a Major

is what will happen next

he’ll take it

A Turner Prize winner

Travis’ company

plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself

Confused and conflicted in this story of impossible love

soldiers in the Revolution

The way to a cheating man's heart is through

capturing the birth of a new force in global politics

unable to let

Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History