Volume 21, Number 4 · March 21, 1974
A Loyal Un-American
By Edmund S. Morgan
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
by Bernard Bailyn
Harvard University Press, 468 pp., $12.50
As the bicentennial of the American Revolution approaches, historians are in no mood to celebrate. On the left, they are busy seeking out the role of the inarticulate masses who were somehow forgotten or betrayed by the gentlemen who ran the show. On the right, historians who survived the activities of would-be campus revolutionaries in the Sixties have difficulty seeing the merits of the Boston Tea Party. And the hard-core liberals who make up most of the academic establishment, if they honor the wisdom of the founding fathers, wish to dissociate them as far as possible from the morally bankrupt government that claims its descent from them.
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