Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: like your local high school team beating the Yankees

This is an excellent account of the early years of America's War for Independence. McCullough traces the history behind the war, and really does an excellent job going into the personalities of those involved, both on the American and British sides. His writing is wordy and tedious at times, which is my only reservation concerning this book.This is a wonderful book for adults to revisit their American history days, and much of the information is new for those of us who are not terribly well-versed in American history. It is truly amazing in retrospect how the American colonists defeated the British considering how much more of a "fly-by-night" force we were. Like the 1980 US Hockey team defeating the Soviets, the American War for Independence was one of those "miracles."