Woodward, Reconstruction, and Their Legacy
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward Edited by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 288 Pages, $35. Reviewed by Stephen B. Presser The great intractable American social problem is race. There is, undeniably, a vast...
Finding a Different Self
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman. Crossway, 2020. Hardcover, 425 pages, $35. Reviewed by Lance Kinzer If a modern day Rip Van Winkle fell asleep in 1960 and woke...
The Power of Citizens Organized
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T. H. Breen. Harvard University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl Harlow Giles Unger’s recent biography on Thomas Paine makes the clarion call that Paine’s written...
A Sophist American Framing
America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It By C. Bradley Thompson. Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 461 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy On the fusionist political right, there are several...
This is good. I’d like to see a follow up piece on Wood’s The American Revolution and on Power & Liberty. Also, maybe some comment on the essay in The Idea of America that walks back the claim in Creation that 1789 marked the end of classical
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“Anton’s book, and his entire worldview, stand as direct challenges to elite preferences and institutions: Okay, boomer, what next?”
Quite the review of Michael Anton's book from Brad Watson in @KirkCenter's @ubookman. https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/a-man-for-all-seasons/