John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty

by C. Bradley Thompson

Book Overview

America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became our second president, no American had written more about our government and not even Jefferson or Madison had read as widely about questions of human nature, natural right, political organization, and constitutional construction. Yet this staunch constitutionalist is perceived by many as having...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611819
• ISBN13: 9780700611812
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.6"