* "American history for grownups ... Makes even public finance theories a page-turner."
--Bourbon County Reader

"From the Pennsylvania frontier to Alexander Hamilton's maneuverings at the highest levels of government, Hogeland tells a good tale. ... renderings of Washington and Hamilton, as well as local figures, make the great men seem all too human."
--Jon Meacham, author of American Gospel; Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An exciting, page-turning narrative. What is different is Hogeland's pure ability to tell a story and tell it well ... The general public could not wish for a better book on the Whiskey Rebellion"
--Paul Douglas Newman, Ph.D., Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

"Hogeland infuses his debut with a uniquely contemporary agon, fraught with parallels to America’s current wars ... But the most engaging conflict is within the characters, not between them. ... Treats ambivalence about the conflict brilliantly.”"
--Washington City Paper

"Hogeland writes like a novelist, reports like a newsman ... and makes historic judgments of a man who has done his homework."
--Blue Ridge Business Journal

"This is the most compelling and dramatically rendered story of the Whiskey Rebellion ever written. It is so riveting that one almost imagines being on the Pennsylvania frontier when the benighted farmers resisted the federal government and tried to cope with the huge army sent west to bludgeon them into submission. Hogeland unravels complex economic issues, shifting political ideologies, and legal maneuverings with uncommon skill, and he has brought to life in beautifully polished prose a cast of characters: insurgent farmers wearing blackface, religious mystics, radical intellectuals, stiff-necked financiers, land speculators, and -- of course -- Hamilton, Washington, and other iconic figures of the revolutionary era who heaped wrath on the hardscrabble inheritors of revolutionary radicalism. Every American who values the history of how liberty and authority have stood in dynamic tension throughout the last three centuries should read this luminous book."
-- Gary Nash, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA; Director, National Center for History in the Schools

"Eminently readable, told with brio."
--Pittsburgh City Paper

"A great read -- and an intelligent, insightful, and bold look at an overlooked but vital incident in American history."
--Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row

“Hogeland's research is exhaustive and often archival, his every statement of fact is properly backed up with evidence, his subject is both important and hitherto neglected, and his conclusions boldly challenge the historiographic mainstream. His book, The Whiskey Rebellion, is also a stirring, page-turning narrative."
--William R. Everdell, Dean of Humanities, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, New York; author of The End of Kings and The First Moderns.

"Captures the drama, danger and importance of the period."
--Pittsburgh Sunday Post-Gazette

"A fast-paced , blow-by-blow account ... judicious, spirited, lucid ... a perceptive parable about the pursuit of political plans no matter what the cost to the nation's unity."
--Publishers Weekly

"Vigorous, revealing... invites critical reconsideration of a founding father or two."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Important history, carefully researched and written with verve. ... Vivid, lively, colorful."
--BookPage

"Provocative ... he knows how to tell an exciting story."
--Booklist