The Roots of American Politics

This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon.

John Frederick Martin received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Harvard University. His current affiliation is The Bancroft Group, LP, founded in 1989. He has worked in the White House as a speechwriter and in three presidential campaigns. His published works include Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century (1991) (Pulitzer history finalist in 1992); Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Democratic Party 1945-1976 (1979); and "Fixing the Presidential Nominating System: Past and Present" (2018).