| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Darren Staloff. Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding. New York: Hill and Wang. 2005. Pp. viii, 419. $30.00.
The strength of Darren Staloff's book is its fine synthesis of the reading and writing habits, and intellectual resilience, of the three statesmen whose worldviews constitute this tripartite study. In each of three well-organized chapters, the author first presents his subject at his most cerebral; next, he assesses each man's political practices during his years of greatest influence.	1
In his introductory section, Staloff synopsizes the works of such philosophes as John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, ultimately presenting a commercial model of the Enlightenment. As a cultural movement, the Enlightenment coupled urbanity (literally, an urban community) with an adoration of science and empiricism; learned societies defined liberty in terms of a rejection of social tumult and suspicion of any form of zealotry. By this definition, commerce was enlightened, not corrupt, and it was connected to the new virtues of moderation and industriousness. The three founders are thus to be judged according to their responsiveness to this utilitarian system of thought.	. . .

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