Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson Paperback by Bernard Bailyn

Product Details

• Publisher: Belknap Press (1976-01-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 448 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674641617
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

“This book,” Bernard Bailyn writes, “depicts the fortunes of a conservative in a time of radical upheaval and deals with problems of public disorder and ideological commitment.” It is at the same time a dramatic account of the origins of the American Revolution from the viewpoint, not of the winners who became the Founding Fathers, but of the losers, the Loyalists. By portraying the ordeal of the last civilian royal governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Bailyn explains “what the human reality was against which the victors struggled” and in doing so makes the story of the Revolution fuller and more comprehensible.

About the Author

Bernard Bailyn was a preeminent historian of early America and the Atlantic world. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Voyagers to the West, and received the National Book Award for The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. At Harvard University, he served as Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.