"The American Commonwealth appeared in 1888. It met with immediate and enthusiastic acclaim in two hemispheres, and during the half-century that followed, remained the classic work in the field... No other foreigner, indeed no American writer on American democracy, enjoyed so great a prestige, or wielded so great an influence in the United States as did Lord Bryce. Our language and history were also his, and he brought to his task a thorough knowledge of the English background in which, despite the "Frontier Theory," so many of the ideals and institutions of America are rooted."
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Presidents of the Board of Trade (United Kingdom)Academics from Northern IrelandPoliticians from Northern IrelandChief Secretaries for IrelandBritish Ambassadors to the United States
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William Ezra Lingelbach, 'American Democracy and European Interpreters', The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 1937), pp. 14-15
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James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FBA (10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922) was an Ulster-born academic, jurist, historian, and Liberal politician.
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