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This book summarizes and gives context to the intellectual debates in the Federalists and Anti-Federalist papers. The author presents the historical context in a very neutral manner and therefore this work is a little more “academic” than some of the other books I have read.
McDonald assumes the reader has a decent understanding of the popular works of the Enlightenment period. As an example the chapter on early American economics explores the impact of Adam Smith’s work, as well as other “lesser known” economists of the Enlightenment, in colonial economics. The economic theories are not “this one was good and this one was bad”, the presentation is more about the views of the colonies on how each philosophy worked. Other sections include lessons learned from the politics of England and the influence on Early Statehood in America. This is a well written book and it provides good context to a period of our nation’s history.
This book was published by University Press of Kansas (1985) and has the ISBN 978-070060311-4
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