The premise of Joyce Appleby’s book, Inheriting the Revolution, is that Americans after 1790s had the independence to allow them to mature and live the lives that they wanted and this would eventually define the future United States. Appleby seeing the revolution as a positive argues that the free society of individualism and free enterprise that we have now came from the political, economical, religion, and cultural changes that these early Americans experienced. She supports her argument in her novel by using autobiographies of hundreds of people, most of them being active in society.
Appleby argues that the main source for the political reform comes from Jeffersonians and the election of Thomas Jefferson. She believes that it was the
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