1805 Mrs. Mercy Otis Warren (1728- 1814) "History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution" (3 vols), 1st edition, Manning & Loring, Boston, for E Larkin (Mrs Warren was a first-hand witness to the events and characters involved, this history is remarkable for the author's insights into the moral & ethical issues facing the new Constitutional Republic, Of all the first-generation historians of the Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren "had the most systematic understanding of the relationship between ideology and ethics, the best-developed interpretation of how corruption operated in history, and the clearest insight into the historian's role as a social and political critic." (The William and Mary Quarterly).

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