USA, 16-Dec, The ideas and manipulations that led to the rebellion of King George III’s American colonies are foundational in America’s history and heritage. Yet they are, says author James C. Thompson, substantially neglected and significantly misunderstood. Since they appear again and again in the course of America’s two-hundred and sixty year history, Thompson observes, all Americans should have a clear understanding of them.
James C. Thompson addresses this issue in his four-book American Revolutions Series. In them, he explains how the prophecy Alexis de Tocqueville made was fulfilled. In 1840, Tocqueville warned that one day a benevolent tyranny would cover the surface of American society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, which would prevent the most original minds and the most energetic characters from rising above the crowd. “The will of man,” he continued, would not be shattered. It would instead be “softened, bent, and guided.” Men would not be forced to act, but constantly restrained from acting. The tyrants would not destroy, said Tocqueville. they would instead prevent existence. They would not terrorize. They would instead “compress, enervate, extinguish, and stupefy people until they are reduced to a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
In his four-book series, James C. Thompson shows how this grotesque forecast became reality. In The First Revolutions in the Minds of the People, he reconstructs the campaigns Sam Adams’ patriot network conducted to rouse the people against King George III. Thompson calls the revolution they orchestrated a “rights” revolution. In The Second American Revolution: How Two Partisan Virginians Poisoned America's Political System, Thompson reconstructs the ten-year insurgency Thomas Jefferson and James Madison waged against Alexander Hamilton and his economic program. Thompson calls this insurgency a “party” revolution. In Faux Thomas Jefferson: A 20th Century Fiction, Thompson recounts how the newly formed Political Historical Complex created faux Thomas Jefferson to normalize Franklin Roosevelt’s “benevolent government.” In The Third American Revolution: Institutionalizing America, Thompson reconstructs the fifty-year process in which an Imperial Hierarchy gained control of every facet of life in America. He calls this usurpation a humanist revolution. But instead of raising up the less fortunate, it produced a network of Nietzschean helpers who completed Tocqueville’s despotic system.
The narrative offers a compelling and accessible dive into the political landscape of 18th-century America. Thompson navigates the heated debates surrounding the Constitution, explores the fragile dynamics of the early republic, and reveals Jefferson's covert efforts as vice president to undercut his opponents. This insight into political manipulation exposes how the political stalwarts gained dominance, The cementing partisanship in American governance.
The first three books in Thompson’s series can be purchased on Amazon. Get them. Read them. You’ll love them.
About the Author
James C. Thompson grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. He attended the University of Virginia, where he obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in Philosophy. He has taught courses in Philosophy, Religion, Ethics, and Western Civilization at Strayer University in Alexandria, Virginia and elsewhere.

Thompson has written nine books on these topics, all released by Commonwealth Books of Virginia. In addition to the three finished volumes in his American Revolutions Series, they include:

• The Birth of Virginia's Aristocracy (2009)
• The Dubious Achievement of the First Continental Congress (2011)
• Thomas Jefferson's Entitlement – Paris 1785 (2014)
• George Washington's Mulatto Man – Who Was Billy Lee? (2015)
He is currently finishing the fourth book in his American Revolutions Series, which will be released in the summer of 2025.

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