An Empire on the EdgeBy: Nick Bunker Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the edges, observed Benjamin Franklin, shortly before the American