The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson | 23.24 MB
Title: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Category: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Revolutionary, Biography & Memoir, Political
Language: English | 480 Pages | ISBN: 9780674306264
Description:
Winner of the National Book Award
The classic political biography that reimagined Revolutionary history-in a new edition to honor America's 250th year.
Thomas Hutchinson, governor of Massachusetts Bay during the restive years of 1771-1774, was the most distinguished colonial-born official in pre-Revolutionary America. He was also the most loathed. A loyalist, Hutchinson defended the legitimacy of Parliament's rule and suffered the consequences, bearing the full weight of Patriot ire. By the eve of the Revolution, he was vilified as the man most responsible for Britain's intolerable cruelties-not only a tyrant but a traitor.
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson is Bernard Bailyn's National Book Award-winning history of Hutchinson and the American loyalists who found themselves on the losing side of the Revolutionary War. Offering a dramatic account of the origins of American independence from the viewpoint of one of its most...
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