| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

The Rediscovery of America: Transatlantic Crosscurrents in an Age of Revolution. By Stuart Andrews. (New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xii, 257 pp. $69.95, isbn 0-312-21405-7.)

The Rediscovery of America is a strangely anachronistic book. Its very subject recalls some of the classics of the 1950s (one immediately thinks of Duran Echeverria's Mirage in the West, 1957, and R. R. Palmer's The Age of the Democratic Revolution, 1959). Unfortunately, though, this book is reminiscent of (and seems to rely on) some of the not-so-classic works of the same period, books with titles like "Voltaire in America" or "Rousseau in America." Stuart Andrews may very well be the first scholar in fifty years seriously to suggest that Voltaire and other French philosophes were the principal intellectual sources for the American Revolution. . . .

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