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 of the American Revolution with his Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. He not only swept the field of . . . . Continue Reading »

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 supporters of the movement for independence; members of the Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence; leaders of . . . . Continue Reading »