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the intellectual dilemmas of our own time. Indeed, it is one of the
most important works of history to be published in recent
decades."--Gordon S. Wood, History Book Club Review
"The most comprehensive survey of the topic to date....A work of
impressive scholarship and critical insight."--Eighteenth-Century
Studies
"A pleasure to turn to....Possesses the same sympathy and
'rock-like dignity' as [May's] earlier works."--Times Literary
Supplement
"A dazzling success in a difficult field....The subject is complex;
Professor May clarifies it without oversimplifying....His is the
best kind of criticism because it is the most accurate."--Naomi
Bliven, he New Yorker
"A grand volume."--America
"The first serious study of the American Enlightenment ever
written....A significant contribution toward an understanding of
the intellectual dilemmas of our own time. Indeed, it is one of the
most important works of history to be published in recent
decades."--Gordon S. Wood, History Book Club Review
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