America's Revolutionary Mind av C. Bradley Thompson

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<div><i>America''s Revolutionary Mind</i> is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn''s <i>The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution</i> and Gordon S. Wood''s <i>The Creation of the American Republic</i>. <br><br>The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams once called the "real American Revolution"; that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before 1776. The Declaration is used here as an ideological road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the 1760s and early 1770s. This volume identifies and analyzes the modes of reasoning, the patterns of thought,