| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Canada and the United States

Christopher Grasso. A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. 1999. Pp. viii, 511. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.

Christopher Grasso has written an important book. Historians of public life throughout the early modern Atlantic world will want to explore his account of how the learned men of eighteenth-century Connecticut—the speaking aristocracy—reshaped their discursive practices in an age of revolution. They may come away wondering about how these practices were received by the less learned. . . .

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