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The French Revolution enters American history at the nation’s founding, in its struggles to define itself, and in taking its place among nations. It resides, too, in the American psyche. The subject, of course, could be treated at book length, but here we look at examples that illuminate how…

Arriving in 1776, as the Declaration of Independence gave birth to a new nation and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall gave birth to a new approach to history, Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations gave birth to a new discipline--modern economics.