{"product_id":"radical-duke-how-one-aristocrat-and-the-american-revolution-transformed-britain","title":"Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-And the American Revolution-Transformed Britain","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith impressive scholarly sleuthing and a storyteller's eloquence, Danielle Allen has written a landmark book about the people and the ideas that changed the world. By bringing the glamorous Duke of Richmond back to life, Allen paints a panoramic portrait of how principles of human equality and the spirit of independence suffused the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century--a story that shapes us still.--Jon Meacham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis book is filled with amazing discoveries that will enrich the way we think of America's founding. . . . [Danielle Allen] shows how these Englishmen and others laid the foundation for the American Revolution.--Walter Isaacson, New York Times best-selling author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Not only does Danielle Allen (the first scholar to use the Duke's library) establish Richmond as an ardent supporter of the American colonists . . . but she also persuasively claims that it was the Duke of Richmond who recruited several talented pamphleteers, including Thomas Paine, James Burgh, Edmund Burke, John Wilkes, and Philip Francis, to collaborate in the writing of the famous \n\u003cem\u003eJunius\u003c\/em\u003e letters (1769-1772), the mysterious authorship of which has baffled scholars for over 250 years. All this gives a new context for the events leading up to the American Revolution. How important and provocative can a book be?\"--Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis book is destined to become a classic in accounts of Anglo-American democratic reform movements in the age of revolutions.--Gregory Claeys, University of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis consequential study by historian Allen ( \n\u003cem\u003eOur Declaration\u003c\/em\u003e) reveals Charles Lennox, Third Duke of Richmond, to be 'one of history's great but unheralded reformers.' . . . a significant, incisive unearthing of one man's hitherto unknown contributions to the modern political order.--Publishers Weekly, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tn this remarkable political biography, Danielle Allen recovers the undersung life and thought of a great reformer--a remarkable enough feat of archival sleuthing. But she does far more, offering a new understanding of the Age of Revolution, in which the struggles of Americans and Britons drew from and informed each other across generations of constitutional renovation. Indeed, Allen has given us a primer for opposition itself: the sustained, future-oriented work of coalition building and compromise that makes real change.--Jane Kamensky, author of A Revolution in Color\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDanielle Allen's excellent book \n\u003cem\u003eRadical Duke\u003c\/em\u003e.... [A] meticulous and stylish study... has the potential to significantly rewrite the history of the American Revolution's intellectual origins.... [It] is a major work of interpretation.... In the 250th year of the Declaration of Independence.... Danielle Allen is to be commended for her own act of resistance. She has written one of the most important, original studies of the American founding and its background to appear in many years.--Jeffrey Collins \"Wall Street Journal\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Danielle Allen unearthed a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, England, little did she know that she had discovered a story of historical magnitude that would alter our understanding of British and American history. Revealing that the Age of Revolution began earlier than we thought--not with the Boston patriots nor with the Parisian Jacobins, but in Britain itself--Allen demonstrates in \u003cem\u003eRadical Duke\u003c\/em\u003e that the rights of man, the theory of revolution, and calls for popular sovereignty all emerged from the radical energies of London before they spread across the Atlantic and the Channel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the center of this new age was Charles Lennox, the progressive Third Duke of Richmond, a rarely cited historical figure who becomes the biographical focus of Allen's groundbreaking work. Even with royal blood coursing through his veins, the handsome, gallivanting Duke (1735-1806) preferred to rub shoulders with ordinary folk--supporting the rights of jurors, freedom of the press, and religious toleration. As Allen shows, from 1767 to 1782, he was England's leading voice of opposition to the Crown, and, as the leader of the Sussex militia, even a threat to the King's power. But the Duke did not challenge the Crown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e alone. The archives have long hidden the covert alliance between the young Duke and his age-mate Thomas Paine, the future author of \u003cem\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/em\u003e. While working as an obscure tax collector, Paine was engaged by the Duke to contribute to the most influential but anonymous newspaper essays of the age, \u003cem\u003eThe Letters of Junius\u003c\/em\u003e, which spawned sedition trials, defined the rights of man, and brought England to the brink of revolution. Along with a small cadre of radicals, Paine and the Duke fired hearts across two continents and secretly stoked a burgeoning political movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Throughout \u003cem\u003eRadical Duke\u003c\/em\u003e, Allen sets the record straight. Through archival evidence, confirmed with computational tools, she reveals the anonymous authors of the inflammatory \u003cem\u003eJunius\u003c\/em\u003e letters; she also identifies a new Paine work, his first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Juryman's Touchstone\u003c\/em\u003e, cowritten in 1771. In the end, the Duke swerved. He did not advocate the overthrow of the monarchy but remained loyal to both Crown and people, launching an age of reform. With her penetrating prose, Allen resuscitates a seminal political figure who has been egregiously neglected throughout history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/15\/2026 (EAN 9781631497551, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/27\/2026 (EAN 9781631497551, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781631497551, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eAllen, Danielle\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and author of \n\u003cem\u003eJustice by Means of Democracy, Cuz\u003c\/em\u003e, and \n\u003cem\u003eOur Declaration\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Parkman Prize. 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