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John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy is a most timely, valuable, and enlightening book. It shows conclusively that Adams was one of the sharpest critics of oligarchy among the American founders and, indeed, in the history of political thought. The book will generate much-needed discussion in political thought, American political studies, and contemporary democratic theory.
—John McCormick, University of Chicago


Remarkably well-written and astonishingly lucid, John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy makes an absolutely central point about Adams’s thought, persuasively reestablishing him as a genuine democrat in his ultimate sympathies.
—Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School


A needed examination of Adams’s political thought on wealth-based aristocracy.
—Choice

John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 4 December 2018
      ISBN-13 9780691183244
      978-0691183244
      ISBN-10 0691183244
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      Philosophy Political ideologies and movements Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy is a most timely, valuable, and enlightening book. It shows conclusively that Adams was one of the sharpest critics of oligarchy among the American founders and, indeed, in the history of political thought. The book will generate much-needed discussion in political thought, American political studies, and contemporary democratic theory.
      —John McCormick, University of Chicago


      Remarkably well-written and astonishingly lucid, John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy makes an absolutely central point about Adams’s thought, persuasively reestablishing him as a genuine democrat in his ultimate sympathies.
      —Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School


      A needed examination of Adams’s political thought on wealth-based aristocracy.
      —Choice

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