The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

Bernard Bailyn

  • 1975 National Book Award for History
  • Preface
  1. Success of the Acquisitive Man: Portrait of the Provincial Bourgeois
  2. The Face of Revolution
  3. Law and Order, Liberty and Empire
  4. The Furies
  5. The Captive
  6. The Failure of Reason
  7. The “Scape-Goat”
  8. Exile
  9. World's End
  • Epilogue
  • Hutchinson Genealogy
  • Appendix. The Losers: Notes on the Historiography of Loyalism
  • Note on the Hutchinson Manuscripts
  • Index
  • Cover: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

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Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes) and The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (National Book Award), both published by Harvard.