In The Conservative Mind (1953), Russell Kirk argued that the American Revolution had mainly been “a conservative reaction, in the English political tradition, against royal innovation...a conservative restoration of colonial prerogatives,” and held up John Adams as an exemplary conservative thinker. Ignored by Kirk were those Americans who, remaining loyal to Britain, had (...)
September 22, 2011
Books
Follow the Losers
Liberty’s ExilesAmerican Loyalists in the Revolutionary WorldMaya JasanoffAlfred A. Knopf, $30, 460 pp.
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