American Leviathan

American Leviathan

The Books That Started a Revolution

Cato’s Letters and the founders’ fear of power

Jun 28, 2026
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June 28, 1776

The American Revolution wasn’t born on a battlefield.

It was born in libraries. It was born in pamphlets. John Adams believed that the political pamphlets, like John Dickinson’s Letters f…

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