The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)

Historian, The, December, 2005 by Brown, David S.

The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. By Edmund S. Morgan. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 91. $19.95.)

Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Edmund S. Morgan's The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson has become a standard short work on the American Revolution. In this updated edition, Morgan adds a new, brief preface summarizing the impact of the independence movement on the founding generation. The flesh material is slight (about six hundred words) and readers in possession of the first edition will not require an updated copy. For the uninitiated, however, Morgan's ruminations on the first three presidents offer valuable...

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