{"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":"\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* PRE-ORDER - SHIPS JUNE 15TH *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn explosive, deeply revisionist work that reveals how a renegade English Duke and Thomas Paine, the firebrand polemicist, almost brought the American Revolution to Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\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 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRadical Duke\u003c\/span\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRadical Duke\u003c\/span\u003e, Allen sets the record straight. Through archival evidence, confirmed with computational tools, she reveals the anonymous authors of the inflammatory \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJunius\u003c\/span\u003e letters; she also identifies a new Paine work, his first book, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Juryman’s Touchstone\u003c\/span\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\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e464 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n","brand":"W.W. Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49939389382893,"sku":"128972","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/6017\/5085\/files\/RADICALDUKE1.jpg?v=1778182437","url":"https:\/\/thehuntingtonstore.org\/products\/radical-duke-how-one-aristocrat-and-the-american-revolution-transformed-britain","provider":"The Huntington Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}