C. Bradley Thompson examines Adam’s “political and constitutional thought by interpreting it within the tradition of political philosophy stretching from Plato to Montesquieu….Thompson reconstructs the contours and influences of Adams’s mental universe, the ideas he challenged, the problems he considered central to constitution-making, and the methods of his reasoning. Skillfully blending history and political science, Thompson’s work shows how the spirit of liberty animated Adams’s life and reestablishes this forgotten Revolutionary as an independent and important thinker.”
