"Provocative and challenging, Dworetz's argument is calculated to unsettle intellectual complacency and to prompt Americans to a new appreciation of the liberal philosophic foundations of liberal philosophy."--Wilson Carey McWilliams, Rutgers University

""The Unvarnished Doctrine" restores Lockean-liberal thought to its proper place as the dominant ideology of the American Revolution. In doing so, this excellent book challenges republican revisionism which either denies the significance of Locke's liberalism or casts it as anti-revolutionary . . . ."--Douglas Jaenicke, "Political Studies"

"Dworetz has done a fine job of drawing attention to the interwoven political and theological issues that frame the American Revolution. . . . Readers of Dworetz's effort will come away with renewed interest in American Revolutionary thought."--John J. Holder, Jr., "Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
""A splendid and lively . . . book."--Issac Krammick, "Society
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