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Title: American Revolutionaries in the Making
Review: Sydnor's work here is dated and ideologically charged. His research is, by today's standards, minimal and is presented to support passe founding-fathers worship and his own normative approval of aristocratic government. The work is better read as a piece of history itself than a work of scholarship. A much more accurate history is available in John G. Kolp's response, Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics in Colonial Virginia (1998).
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