Wonder Boy.("Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World")(Book Review)

National Review | May 5, 2003| | Copyright

Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World, by Jedediah Purdy (Knopf, $24, 352 pp.)

Jedediah Purdy, the American Left's winsome scourge of irony, is a great one for name-dropping. In the course of a three-page preface to this book, he cites Burke, Tocqueville, Shakespeare, and Hannah Arendt; by page 50, he has added Yeats, Whitman, Hamilton, Jefferson, Thoreau, Adam Smith, Oakeshott, the Buddha, Emerson, Montesquieu, and Augustine.

Such a welter of names might lead the reader to suspect that Purdy's book is a work of political ...

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