Americas Revolutionary Mind, C. Bradley Thompson
Americas Revolutionary Mind, C. Bradley Thompson
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America's Revolutionary Mind
A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It

Author: C. Bradley Thompson

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 18 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/23/2020

Synopsis

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, and the new moral and political principles that served American Revolutionaries first in their intellectual battle with Great Britain before 1776 and then in their attempt to create new Revolutionary societies after 1776.

The book reconstructs what amounts to a near-unified system of thought—what Thomas Jefferson called an "American mind" or what author C. Bradley Thompson calls "America's Revolutionary mind." This American mind was, Thompson argues, united in its fealty to a common philosophy that was expressed in the Declaration and launched with the words, "We hold these truths to be self-evident."

About C. Bradley Thompson

C. Bradley Thompson is professor of political philosophy at Clemson University and the executive director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He received his PhD at Brown University, and he has also been a visiting scholar at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London. He is the author of the award-winning John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty as well as Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert

This book may be the most important work of American history in generations. In fact, it may be the most important book of our time. Hyperbole? Not in the least. Distinguished political philosopher and historian C. Bradley Thompson has marshaled extraordinary scholarship and a lucid, elegant style to......more

Goodreads review by Clay

An extremely deep dive into the thinking of the American Revolutionaries. Learned about the author from his interview on The Dennis Prager Show radio program.......more

Goodreads review by Ron

America’s Revolutionary Mind — A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It C. Bradley Thompson © 2019 A short Book Report by Ron Housley Think of it! — A whole book about what was in the minds of America’s revolutionary generation, not about what they did but about wha......more

Goodreads review by John

C. Bradley Thompson’s book was a surprising and wonderful revelation. His thesis is that from roughly 1760 to 1776 the American colonists distilled a new, radical and even revolutionary political philosophy; that this philosophy was concisely and eloquently framed and set forth in the Declaration of......more

Goodreads review by Amy

This book is a masterpiece. It is absolutely one of the best books I have ever read. Thompson carefully traces the evolution of the ideas that led to the American Revolution, using the Declaration as his framework. He reaches back to the Enlightenment and forward to the Civil War and beyond. If you......more

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