| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy. By Laura Jensen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-521-81883-4. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-521-52426-1.)

Just when nation building has become the pressing problem of American foreign relations, Laura Jensen offers a timely investigation of the formative years of the United States and the policies that bound citizens to a new central government after the regime change better known as the American Revolution. Neither elections nor nationalist ideology proved as important as entitlements—the congressional legislation creating exclusionary classes of citizens and providing them with direct benefits such as pensions and land grants. Early republic entitlements were selective, not universal, and their benefits accrued less to recipients than to the national government itself. Entitlements rewarded the soldiers and settlers who allowed the United States to "claim, protect, and expand its sovereignty over an immense portion of the North American continent" (p. 205).

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