Adam Smith’s America offers a new way to understand the meaning and significance of Adam Smith’s ideas through the eyes of his past readers. It shows how Smith’s American reception teaches us just as much, if not more, about the political, ideological, and methodological commitments that those ideas were recruited to serve as they teach us about Smith himself.
—Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (Chapter 1: “Truly the Man of the Revolution,” page )