Includes bibliographical references (page 279) and index.
Contents
John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas Hutchinson -- Thomas Paine -- The index and commentaries of Harbottle Dorr -- Andrew Eliot -- Jonathan Mayhew -- Stephen Johnson -- 1776 in Britain and America : a year of challenge, a world transformed -- Political experience and radical ideas in eighteenth-century America -- The central themes of the American Revolution -- The ideological fulfillment of the American Revolution.