| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii, 558 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-515924-1.)

A Leap in the Dark is a large, ambitious book. It represents the mature reflections of a historian who has spent an entire career on its subject. John Ferling has written a narrative account that takes his readers from the Albany Congress of 1754 to the presidential inauguration of Thomas Jefferson in 1801. It is likely to attract many general readers of the sort who are drawn to Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers (2000) and David McCullough's John Adams (2001). I hope it does.

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