The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

bernard bailyn

To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological origins adds a new dimension to the book and projects its meaning forward into vital current concerns.

Genres historyamerican historyamerican revolutionnonfictionpoliticsphilosophyamericanamerican revolutionary warpolitical sciencehistorical

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1967

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, bancroft prize,

This edition

Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Published: March 1, 1992 by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674443020
ASIN: 0674443020
Language: English

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About the author

bernard bailyn

Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987). In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.