The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe By Kevin R. C. Gutzman. St. Martin’s Press, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $37. Reviewed by Adam L. Tate. It seems that in every age, the politically frustrated harken back to better days....
An Anti-Federalist Constitution: The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debates By Michael J. Faber. University Press of Kansas, 2019. Hardcover, 536 pages, $55. Reviewed by Adam L. Tate. The battle over ratification of the United States Constitution between...
“The Last God’s Dream,” while certainly among the more daring of Kirk’s “experiments in the moral imagination”(as he described his literary efforts), is also one of the more successful at blending the author’s varied interests in politics, history, literature, and metaphysics.