Volume 39, Number 12 · June 25, 1992
The Second American Revolution
By Edmund S. Morgan
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon S. Wood
Knopf, 447 pp., $27.50
The American Revolution has always posed a challenge to historians. Revolutions are supposed to be risings of the masses against the tyranny of their masters. Even if the end result is the new tyranny of a Cromwell, a Bonaparte, or a Stalin, a revolution scarcely seems to deserve the name without the overthrow of an oppressive ruling class by some kind of underclass.
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