Bernard Bailyn was Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
In every area of Bernard Bailyn’s research—whether Virginia society
of the 17th century or the schools of early America—he transformed
what historians had hitherto thought about the subject. In The
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, the most famous of
his works, Bailyn uncovered a set of ideas among the Revolutionary
generation that most historians had scarcely known existed. These
radical ideas about power and liberty, and deeply rooted fears of
conspiracy, had propelled Americans in the 1760s and 1770s into the
Revolution, Bailyn said. His book, which won the Pulitzer and
Bancroft prizes in 1968, influenced an entire generation of
historians. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation
of the Revolution.
*Wall Street Journal*
One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read
this book.
*New York Times Book Review*
A distinguished achievement. Mr. Bailyn writes with the authority
and integrity that derive from a thorough mastery of the material.
His meticulous scholarship is matched with perceptive analysis.
*New York Review of Books*
Tightly written and politically sophisticated…In the field of
American Revolutionary Studies, Bailyn’s book must henceforth
occupy a position of first rank.
*Saturday Review*
The most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear
in a generation.
*History*
With this reading of the American Revolutionary Experience, Mr.
Bailyn has substantially and profoundly altered the nature and
direction of the inquiry on the American Revolution. In the process
he has also erected a new framework for interpreting the entire
first half-century of American national history…A landmark in
American historiography.
*American Quarterly*
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