Description
Book SynopsisExamines the connection between patriot discourse and long-standing debates - already central to the 1707 Act of Union - about the relationship among piety, moral philosophy, and political unionism.
Trade ReviewThis thoroughly researched work is best suited for scholars of Enlightenment history and the American Revolution."" -
Library Journal""Thoroughly researched. . . . [A] detailed investigation. Recommended."" -
Choice""Readers interested in placing one of the Garden State's favorite sons in a transatlantic world of ideas will not find a better book about the only minister to sigh the Declaration of Independence."" -
New Jersey Studies""Mailer does more than urge scholars to look at Witherspoon anew; he makes a compelling case for them to use Witherspoon's experience as a lens through which to more accurately gauge the interplay of religious conflict and Enlightenment philosophy in the founding of the United States."" -
American Historical Review""A landmark in Scottish-American historiography."" -
Eighteenth-Century Scotland
