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Political Thought of the American Revolution: A Reader is a two-volume, primary source anthology, the purpose of which is to introduce teachers and students of the American Revolution to the thought, policies, laws, and constitutions of the best American and British thinkers and statesmen in the period between 1761 and 1785 as they discussed, deliberated, speculated, theorized, debated, compromised, and decided which path forward to take.

The tracts of Volume II allow readers to study how American revolutionaries thought about constitutional design and political construction. Each document is preceded by a headnote, which provides readers with a relatively brief introduction to the author or authors of each document and the context in which it was written. This volume features an Introduction by the editor that identifies and sums up the major themes of the Americans’ attempts to design constitutions and to build republican governments. It is hoped these two volumes will launch a renaissance in the teaching, study, and scholarship of the American Revolution.

C. Bradley Thompson

C. Bradley Thompson is a professor of political philosophy at Clemson University, Executive Director of the Snow Institute for the Study Capitalism, and the founder and director of the Lyceum Scholars Program at Clemson. He received his Ph.D. at Brown University, and he has been a visiting scholar at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London. Professor Thompson has published many books, including the award-winning John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty, Anti-Slavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader, Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration that Defined It, What America Is, and Political Thought of the American Revolution: A Reader (2 volumes). Thompson is also the founder, publisher, and chief blogger at EdWatchDaily.com, and he is the founder and publisher of Loco-Foco Press. Thompson’s public writings on current intellectual, political, and cultural trends can be found at his Substack, The Redneck Intellectual.

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Theme:	US History, Political Theory
Author:	C. Bradley Thompson
Pages:	434
ISBN-13	979-8991448949

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