Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social Virtue.(Review) (book review)

Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social Virtue. By John E. Hill. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2000. 213p. $55.00.

No one will deny John E. Hill's claim that he has written an "unabashedly didactic" book (p. xi). This is not social science, or political theory, or history as it is usually understood by those disciplines. I do not mean that as a criticism, for there is great merit in writing as a concerned citizen-scholar. Hill puts his political cards on the table. He is a self-described "moderate liberal" (p. xi) who ...

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