| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Canada and the United States

C. Bradley Thompson. John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty . (American Political Thought.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1998. Pp. xix, 340. $39.95.

C. Bradley Thompson has written an important study of John Adams's political thought. In it, he seeks to disabuse readers of the standard interpretations of his subject, to explicate Adams's major political texts, to defend Adams's political consistency, and to establish Adams's place among the pantheon of America's greatest political thinkers. Thompson denies that Adams was a latter-day Puritan, that his political thought changed during the revolutionary era, or that Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States (published in 1787 and 1788) was incoherent and "irrelevant." Rather, Adams rejected Calvinism, embraced John Locke and the Enlightenment, and remained a consistent supporter of republican government. His Defence was a superb, original contribution to the study of political science. . . .

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