?Offers an interestingly different hypothesis concerning why the colonists were divided during the Revolution. Since this work opens a whole new area of research for future historians of the period, academic and research libraries will want to have a copy.?-Library Journal
?In all of these reviews there is a shock of recognition that renders them fascinating historical documents as well as testimonies to the commitment that Spiller gave to the developing study of American literature.?-American Literary Scholarship
