America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of
the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S.
Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this
book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and
significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment
of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams
once called the "real American Revolution"; that is, the moral
revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen
years before 1776. The Declaration is used here as an ideological
road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain
traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral
principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the
1760s and early 1770s. This volume identifies and analyzes the
modes of reasoning, the patterns of thought, and the new moral and
political principles that served American Revolutionaries first in
their intellectual battle with Great Britain before 1776 and then
in their attempt to create new Revolutionary societies after 1776.
The book reconstructs what amounts to a near-unified system of
thought-what Thomas Jefferson called an "American mind" or what I
call "America's Revolutionary mind." This American mind was, I
argue, united in its fealty to a common philosophy that was
expressed in the Declaration and launched with the words, "We hold
these truths to be self-evident."
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