Four Fathers

James H. Hutson. John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1980. 200 + vii pp. Richard M. Rollins. The Long Journey of Noah Webster. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980.195 + xi pp. Robert E. Shalhope. John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1980. 304 + ix pp. Charles Cecil Wall. George Washington: Citizen-Soldier. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. 217 + xiv pp. Some of the most interesting and provocative recent work on the Revolution has attempted to recover the experience of common people in that crisis. These four books belong to an older tradition, that of the weighty life-and- times volumes which used to mark the passing of statesmen or at least the death of politicians. Modern economics have reduced the two or three volumes to one slim book, but modern scholarship shows that there is still vitality in this approach to a great historical event. It is not an easy mode to work in, especially under the pressure of limited space, and some of the authors are more successful than others in bringing together characters and circumstances

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