Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award
“An extraordinary work of scholarship,... A Speaking Aristocracy is unquestionably the finest study of revolutionary Connecticut ever written.”
--Joseph J. Ellis
“This book is a wonderful portrait of leadership and public discourse in the Revolutionary era. Grasso’s signal achievement is to integrate the cumulative legacy of evangelical preaching, legal reasoning, enlightenment science, republican ideology, literary sensibility, and political debate.”
--Nathan O. Hatch
“A Speaking Aristocracy...is a deeply researched, subtle, and compelling story of continuity and change that challenges all easy generalizations about the stability and homogeneity of the early Connecticut elite."
--Ruth Bloch
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