New York at war.(Brief Article)

Ketchum, Richard M. Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York. Macrae Bks: Holt. Oct. 2002. c.464p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 2002022814. ISBN 0-8050-6119-3. $30.

Schecter, Barnet. The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution. Walker. Oct. 2002. c.448p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8027-1374-2. $28. HIST

When we think of America and the Civil War, we usually think of the blue and the gray. But as historian Ketchum (The Winter Soldiers) points out in his newest book, America's first Civil War occurred nearly a century earlier. Ketchum uses New York City as the backdrop to describe the events that …