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The Junto and similar book clubs become, in Jiang’s telling, intellectual infrastructure for the American Revolution by training wealthy colonists in Locke, Hobbes, classical republics, and political conspiracy.
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The Junto and similar book clubs become, in Jiang’s telling, intellectual infrastructure for the American Revolution by training wealthy colonists in Locke, Hobbes, classical republics, and political conspiracy.
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"...into a club, which we call by the name of the Junto, and an object of which was to improve our understandings. Okay. This..."
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"Also, this is important because these book clubs will become the foundation of the American Revolution. Right? Right? So these brothers will meet in..."
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"induced us to peruse attentively such books as were written upon the subjects proposed that we might be able to speak about. So they..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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