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People who live in the shade: revisionist historian Thaddeus Russell on American renegades, delusional socialists, left-libertarians, and Obama fans.

IF YOU ASSOCIATE the era of the American Revolution with individual liberty, you're right in more ways than you probably realized. In the lead-up to the War of Independence and during the revolution itself, prosecutions for prostitution, sodomy, and drunkenness were rare. Divorce was easy. Women entered a wide range of professions. Members of different races mixed freely in raucous taverns.

Such liberties shocked the more respectable classes, including the Founding Fathers; in what one...

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