Excellent ... Her meticulous and stylish study has the potential to significantly rewrite the history of the American Revolution’s intellectual origins ... Eye-catching ... The book’s specific claims may be debated, but few can dispute its broader achievement. It speaks to the central paradox of our national origins: A revolution that repudiated allegiance to the British Constitution was nevertheless vitally inspired by that very constitutional inheritance.
It advances a singularly bold case for the English origins of the American Revolution ... Reading Allen’s pages, one thinks again and again about a single question: How did the Duke get away with it?
