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Book · 1967 · Nonfiction

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Bernard Bailyn
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press · 432 pages
★ 6.7 editorial score

Colonists rebelled because they believed London was conspiring to destroy their liberty. Reading hundreds of pamphlets, Bailyn showed that ideas made the Revolution. A generation of historians rewrote the founding on his terms.

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1967Depicts Colonial AmericaDepicts 18th century

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“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial and article as Freedom should not be highly rated.”

Thomas Paine