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Book SynopsisA biography of a leading loyalist named Thomas Bradbury Chandler (1726–1790), exploring his advocacy of monarchy and his criticisms of the American revolutionary movement.
Trade Review“Opens a wide field for further research in the work of one of the greatest minds of the period.”
—Richard Mammana Medium.com
“An intriguing contribution to a thriving literature on religion and the American Revolution, as well as on the diversity of political sentiments present in the colonial and Revolutionary eras. The Folly of Revolution reflects a creative reading of the influences on a significant religious figure, Anglican Thomas Bradbury Chandler, and in many places, it presents insightful new readings of well-known sources.”
—Katherine Carté,author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America
“Thoroughly researched, The Folly of Revolution makes Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the intellectual world of this prominent loyalist more understandable. Rohrer complicates our understanding of the uses of English history by loyalists, and this study of Chandler is unique in recognizing the significance of non-juror arguments from the Glorious Revolution as foundational to his thinking about the right to rebellion.”
—Nancy L. Rhoden,author of Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy During the American Revolution
