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""With impressive scholarly sleuthing and a storyteller's eloquence, Danielle Allen has written a landmark book about the people and the ideas that changed the world. By bringing the glamorous Duke of Richmond back to life, Allen paints a panoramic portrait of how principles of human equality and the spirit of independence suffused the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century--a story that shapes us still."" -- Jon Meacham

Danielle Allen recovers the undersung life and thought of a great reformer--a remarkable enough feat of archival sleuthing. But she does far more, offering a new understanding of the Age of Revolution.--Jane Kamensky, author of A Revolution in Color This book is destined to become a classic in accounts of Anglo-American democratic reform movements in the age of revolutions.--Gregory Claeys, University of London This book is filled with amazing discoveries that will enrich the way we think of America's founding. . . . [Danielle Allen] shows how these Englishmen and others laid the foundation for the American Revolution.--Walter Isaacson, New York Times best-selling author With impressive scholarly sleuthing and a storyteller's eloquence, Danielle Allen has written a landmark book about the people and the ideas that changed the world. By bringing the glamorous Duke of Richmond back to life, Allen paints a panoramic portrait of how principles of human equality and the spirit of independence suffused the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century--a story that shapes us still.--Jon Meacham This consequential study by historian Allen (Our Declaration) reveals Charles Lennox, Third Duke of Richmond, to be 'one of history's great but unheralded reformers.' . . . a significant, incisive unearthing of one man's hitherto unknown contributions to the modern political order.--Publishers Weekly, starred review ""Not only does Danielle Allen (the first scholar to use the Duke's library) establish Richmond as an ardent supporter of the American colonists . . . but she also persuasively claims that it was the Duke of Richmond who recruited several talented pamphleteers, including Thomas Paine, James Burgh, Edmund Burke, John Wilkes, and Philip Francis, to collaborate in the writing of the famous Junius letters (1769-1772), the mysterious authorship of which has baffled scholars for over 250 years. All this gives a new context for the events leading up to the American Revolution. How important and provocative can a book be?""--Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and author of Justice by Means of Democracy, Cuz, and Our Declaration, winner of the Parkman Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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