I don’t think that anyone who’s undertaken any non-trivial study of the 18th century in N America would consider “the American Revolution was primarily driven by the self-interest of the leadership cabal” to be a controversial statement
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Yes, American elites (to say nothing of the Boston proletariat) were famously and uniquely immune to the Enlightenment ideology that led the French aristocracy to decapitate their state and privileged status within it.
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But that sort of thing is inevitable -- Novick is right on this.
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Yer kidding, right? Both the Handlins and Genoveses spring to mind. And Chaplin & Armitage at Harvard are a present day example.
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Perhaps, but my admittedly hazy recollection is that Forrest McDonald did a pretty effective demolition job on Beard's use of historical evidence.
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I had a prof who did a seminar on this and he pretty convincingly showed (at least to my satisfaction) that McDonald's critique doesn't do the job.
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A full Beardian revival is unlikely because his views on the civil war (iT'S aBout TAriFfs) is indefesible. But he's very good on revolution and founding.
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