The ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
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The ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
（A Harvard paperback, HP97）
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1974
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
"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.
Table of Contents
* Preface * Success of the Acquisitive Man: Portrait of the Provincial Bourgeois * The Face of Revolution * Law and Order, Liberty and Empire * The Furies * The Captive * The Failure of Reason * The "Scape-Goat" * Exile * World's End * Epilogue * Hutchinson Genealogy * Appendix. The Losers: Notes on the Historiography of Loyalism * Note on the Hutchinson Manuscripts * Index
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