Brad, congratulations on another milestone. I've long been inspired by America's founding principles, and your book has encouraged me to deepen my understanding. Profound insights, once identified, sometimes appear to be obvious. Such is the nature of your discovery of Adams's view of the Revolution. But you deserve full credit because discovering the "obvious" required your genius. For me, the inspiration comes from understanding that the real American revolution was the ascendance of rational morality, as opposed to today's irrational hysteria, which sometimes seems almost normal. If America's high state of mind was possible in Adams's time, it should be possible now, or at least in the foreseeable future. I can only hope I live long enough to see a reappearance of "America's revolutionary mind." If that happens, it will have been, at least in part, because of your work.
Having recently finished, not merely reading America's Revolutionary Mind, but studying it, reflecting on it, and discussing the content with a dozen thoughtful intellectual friends, I have to say: the accolades for Prof. Thompson's book are, if anything, understated. This is a genuinely great book, that provides the thoughtful reader with a valuable new understanding of what America's Founding Fathers thought, and how the common people of the American Colonies came to have the moral rectitude necessary to revolt against the most powerful country in the world -- and win!
Brad, congratulations on another milestone. I've long been inspired by America's founding principles, and your book has encouraged me to deepen my understanding. Profound insights, once identified, sometimes appear to be obvious. Such is the nature of your discovery of Adams's view of the Revolution. But you deserve full credit because discovering the "obvious" required your genius. For me, the inspiration comes from understanding that the real American revolution was the ascendance of rational morality, as opposed to today's irrational hysteria, which sometimes seems almost normal. If America's high state of mind was possible in Adams's time, it should be possible now, or at least in the foreseeable future. I can only hope I live long enough to see a reappearance of "America's revolutionary mind." If that happens, it will have been, at least in part, because of your work.
Having recently finished, not merely reading America's Revolutionary Mind, but studying it, reflecting on it, and discussing the content with a dozen thoughtful intellectual friends, I have to say: the accolades for Prof. Thompson's book are, if anything, understated. This is a genuinely great book, that provides the thoughtful reader with a valuable new understanding of what America's Founding Fathers thought, and how the common people of the American Colonies came to have the moral rectitude necessary to revolt against the most powerful country in the world -- and win!
This was an excellent book. Thanks, Brad, for writing it, and thanks for getting it on AudioBooks!!!