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Names: Thompson, C. Bradley, author.
Title: America’s revolutionary mind : a moral history of the American Revolution and the Declaration that defined it / by C. Bradley Thompson.
Description: New York : Encounter Books, 2019. | Includes bibliographica references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019014130 (print) | LCCN 2019981311 (ebook) | ISBN 9781641770668 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781641770675 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Political science—United States—History—18th century. | United States. Declaration of Independence. | United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Moral and ethical aspects.
Classification: LCC JA84.U5 T478 2019 (print) | LCC JA84.U5 (ebook) | DDC 973.3/1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014130
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019981311