God of Liberty

Short review: This is a good supplement to revolutionary history. Thomas Kidd is particularly paying attention to religious history here. I just finished reading Mark Noll's In the Beginning Was the Word, which is particularly a history of how scripture was used in North American from 1492 until 1783. The two books are helpful together. Kidd is showing the broader history, Noll is showing the more particular use of scripture and how that effected the colonial self understanding and how that compared to British scripture uses.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/god-of-liberty/