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The American Colonial Crisis
Daniel Leonard
其他書名
The Daniel Leonard-John Adams Letters to the Press, 1774-1775
出版Harper & Row, 1972
主題History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Political Science / American Government / State
ISBN00613163699780061316364
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7BcaAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Both authors contrived to write on several levels. Each was anxious to shape public opinion through appeals to fear, anger, honor, pride, virtue and communal and imperial loyalty. Factional politics appeared and reappeared throughout these essays as Tory and Whig each charged his opponent with responsibility for the crisis, each seeing in the other side a horrid conspiracy against virtue and the virtuous. "Adams and Leonard in the exposition of their ideology were crossing swords over two antithetical models of society. For the Tory, the basic elements were order and an imperial stability; only within this framework could colonials expect to thrive... For the Whig, liberty and innovation were the key ingredients of the model, Adams, then, was responding to his perception of the need for greater flexibility in order to avert the explosion of pent-up hostility to a deferential society. His remedy was widespread involvement of the electorate and modification of the empire. Consequently, Adams faced toward the future, Leonard toward the past. This was the American Revolution."--Publisher.