Joseph Ficklen’s Reviews > The King's Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 > Status Update

“The idea that [colonial authors] predominately referenced antiquity is a modern one, read back through the revolutionaries’ desperate search for a workable republican order after 1775. In fact, before then, they primarily fixed on England’s seventeenth century struggles to make sense of the spreading imperial conflict.” pg. 267