The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

"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.

Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 01/01/1976
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.04w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780674641617

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 02/13/2003 pg. 38

About the Author
Bailyn, Bernard: - Bernard Bailyn was Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.