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Reviews October 21, 2015 October 13, 2015

The Spirit of ’74, How the American Revolution Began

by Hugh T. Harrington

Book Review: The Spirit of ’74, How the American Revolution Began (New York, The New Press, 2015) by Ray Raphael and Marie Raphael Most people…

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The first comment above was about "'protesters' covering the statue of Jefferson at the University of Virginia." As news reports make clear (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41258592), those people put a black shroud over…
2. Aaron L Thomas Jefferson, the American Revolution, and the Creation of a Republican World

"Please explain again why people protesting (even if one disagrees with their cause or approach) can’t simply be called protesters. Why the scare-quotes, with the implication that they’re merely so-called…
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4. Jay Anderson Thomas Jefferson, the American Revolution, and the Creation of a Republican World

As an alumnus of Mr. Jefferson's University (albeit one who more closely aligns with Jefferson's political adversaries, Washington and Hamilton, and therefore well versed in Jefferson's shortcomings), I am distressed…
5. J. L. Bell Thomas Jefferson, the American Revolution, and the Creation of a Republican World

Please explain again why people protesting (even if one disagrees with their cause or approach) can't simply be called protesters. Why the scare-quotes, with the implication that they're merely so-called…