This Saturday, I have the distinct honor of receiving the 2026 book award from the historic Society of the Cincinnati for Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution. I have been thrilled by the reception of the book and I am particularly grateful for the recognition by the Society.
The Society is named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus who became Roman Consul and later dictator of Rome when it was threatened. However, when Rome was saved, he relinquished all of his powers to return to his farm. That is why the motto of the society is Omnia reliquit servare rempublicam (“He relinquished everything to serve the Republic”).
The full name of the society is the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. It was founded in 1783 near the close of the American Revolutionary War by officers of the Continental Army. With the disbanding of the Army looming after the war, General Henry Knox and the officers pledged to keep the society going through their sons. It is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States.
It has thirteen individual societies in the United States as well as one in France, which perpetuate “the remembrance of this vast event” of the American independence, “to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature,” and “to render permanent the cordial affection subsisting among the officers” of the Continental Army who served in the Revolutionary War.
George Washington was the first President General of the Society. After he died in 1799, Alexander Hamilton became the second president. When Hamilton was killed in his famous duel, he was succeeded by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
The General Society is headquartered (and the award dinner will be held at) the historic Anderson House in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
I wanted to thank the Society for this honor and I look forward to the event this week in Washington.
Congratulations!
Well deserved, Professor Turley. Thank you for trying to teach the blizzard of stupid flooding through our universities.
And to those isolated socialists who need to vent your venom: Why don’t you take a passage from the book and using your profound wisdom disprove it with the understanding we only deal with facts and logic on these pages.
Of what concern of the president is it what an entertainer’s ratings are?
So what?
How childish.
He needs to spend more time focusing more on his Article 2 duties and responsibilities.
For the leader of the free world, he has a poor grasp of the purpose of rights and freedoms.
Congratulations, Professor. Well earned, deserved, and well met.
Congrats Professor!
I hope they give an award to OLLY, our latter-day Cincinnatus.
B O O Y A H . . . . KUDOS to Jonathan Turley.
This is supremely comical… Turley getting an adult Participation Trophy.
This is supremely comical… a total idiot that has never done anything in life criticizing a great work and award. Bitter grapes.
Fantastic – thank you for your contribution to America, the legal and Journalism professions and my life and knowledge. You are on my A list.
Congratulations. Your mom would be so proud and your family is as well.
So…care to share with us what your next book will be?
The book is a great read. If it leaves many important questions unanswered (how will our nation still cope beset by unproductive rage), that just sets the stage for lively engagement and critical thinking. The book is surprisingly informative about how food insecurity is a tipping point toward violent rebellion. And it gives Thomas Paine the credit overlooked by historical narratives for inspiring the American Revolution through his writings..
A huge mazel tov to you! Well deserved!!
Congratulations, Professor! How well-deserved.
I have a question Turley, why were you given that award, you never served in a US war, never in the US military, you don’t know Washington, so why?
He got it for a lousy book. I too thought about why Turley never served our US military? Because he’s a dirty coward. Young men are wounded and die for the USA and Turley just pulls in awards and dollars. What a despicable coward.
Public service comes in many forms. What have you contributed? Your snarky, condescending comment offers nothing of any use.
Ask yourself, then print it here: “What have you contributed? Your snarky, condescending comment offers nothing of any use.”
Waiting …. you s_f.
Oh hush
I knew George Washington. George Washington was a friend of mine, and he told me Turley deserves this award. So there.
Same here, I knew honest Abe Lincoln and he said Turley deserves this award too. So there.
Honest Abe would never lie.
What a childish response. If you are seriously concerned, shouldn’t you be directing this to the Society. And if you show the least respect, they likely will give you a much better reasoned response than your sophomoric tirade portrayed.
Yes to get a Pulitzer prize or Nobel prize every person has served in a US war and the US military.
Even first graders get ‘awards’ during the school year. Are you really that stupid, ignorant and obtuse?
Get a life.
award /ə-wôrd′/
transitive verb
To grant as merited or due.
“awarded prizes to the winners.”
To grant an amount or other benefit legally due.
“awarded damages to the plaintiff.”
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge.
“the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant”
Show us where it says anything about a war or the military?
Congratulations, Professor Turley, well deserved. Your work may very well turn out to be the most consequential writing of the first half of the 21st century, if not longer. A significant and timely corollary to de Tocqueville’s reflections.
Well-deserved honor. Congratulations.
Professor Turley, let me offer my congratulations as well! I have learned a huge amount from not only Rage and the Republic, but from The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.
As remarked upon by Anti-Fascist Warrior, above, we would all do well to heed the warnings presented in both books.
Congratulations professor! Well done!
well done? What did he do?
Turley wrote a book containing all his internet articles. And he gets a useless award from whitesupremacists.
You poor pathetic child.
Congrats. You have developed an interesting model of the current national mood, its operational calculus, and possible long term consequences. With your model you explain and interpret events. Can you use it to predict – the hallmark in scientific models?
Hey Don maybe you can get Turley to plug your novel.
Plug your mouth!
g F-y
Congratulations, Jonathan. It is well-deserved. The book contained some information I knew, some which I knew but had forgotten, and much that I never knew at all. Anyone concerned about the health of the American Republic should read this book, and heed it’s warnings.
Exactly how I thought of this great book.
Presumably, Turley sent Trump a copy on the house (free of charge). .. Trump is not concerned about the health of the American Republic.
According to Trump, the health of the American Republic has NEVER been better.. . the numbers are off the charts.
*so good, everyone will get $5,000 on the house . .. just after the elections.
Shall we return to the biden days?
I say no. Four years of nothing but high cost everything.