In this book written by Robert Gross, The Minutemen and Their World, the preface explains the reason for the book and the history it represents. This book describes Concord and the townspeople’s ordinary lives before the Revolution. Robert Gross, explains his point of view on how he chooses to relate Concord’s response to revolution directly without flogging the evidence.
In the prologue, it goes into detail how people would move to a different community in the Spring time to start fresh and laborers searched for work and during the harvest time people would try to relax. Also, it describes how the town of Concord had owed its importance of the roads due to being on the centers of the trading centers of the province. In Chapter 1, it starts