The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America - Paperback

by Drew R. McCoy (Author)

By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought -- an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions -- Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.

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By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought - an intellectual world with its own concepts, and assumptions - Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era.

Author Biography

Drew R. McCoy, Jacob and Frances Hiatt Professor of History at Clark University, is author of The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy.