I read his book on Andrew Jackson. Boring. He cut and pasted a bunch of stuff and strung it together with a lot of politically correct garbage. No scholarship. No insight. It seemed to have been written by a committee of interns.
Probably was.
Burke observed then, ". . . it is the spirit that has made the country. . . ."
He went on, "Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired, and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. .. . This is a persuasion not only favourable to liberty, but built upon it . . . This religion, under a variety of denominations agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit of liberty, is predominant in most of the northern provinces. . . . The Southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward."
He went on to refer to the "temper and character" of the colonists, "In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole. . . ."
By far the greatest indicator that Burke's qualities are not to be found where this writer attributes them is in the following Burke observation about their "untractable spirit" and "education":
"In other countries the people . . . judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle." Americans, he said, could detect "misgovernment at a distance and sniff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."