How Somewhat Obscure English Duke Helped Stoke American Revolutionary Ambitions

How Somewhat Obscure English Duke Helped Stoke American Revolutionary Ambitions

By Christina Pazzanese | Harvard Staff Writer | Harvard Gazette Danielle Allen never imagined that a hunt a decade ago to track down every early copy of the Declaration of Independence would lead her to a lesser-known British aristocrat who stoked the revolutionary ambitions of Thomas Paine and America’s founders beginning in the 1760s. In a new book, “Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat — and the American Revolution — Transformed Britain,” Allen r…