American Creation By Joseph Ellis

As usual, Ellis is doing an excellent job in this book. Though I have only started I find myself enjoying Ellis' writing style. He explains the premise of the book and his approach to the subject at the beginning, which I find refreshing from many of the scholarly works that I read. This explains his appeal to a general audience. He is teaching, starting from the reason for the question and his approach. So far, is seems that he borrowing a lot from his biography on Adams and has stuck to Adam's perspective on the causes and need for revolution. He endorses the view of Adams as a cautious conservative revolutionary and explains how strange an animal this thinking is in such a time. Paine on the other hand..... More review later.