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Revolutionary Perspectives

Michael Zuckert

To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by bernard bailyn knopf, 185 pages, $26 About twenty-five years ago Bernard Bailyn transformed the study...

The Popular Adams

Michael Zuckert

John Adams By David McCullough Simon & Schuster. 752 pp. $35 Ever since 1776 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson have been nearly joined at the hip: collaborators and strong...