Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-and the American Revolution-Transformed Britain

"With 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

An explosive, deeply revisionist work that reveals how a renegade English D...