A historian's historian - Bernard Bailyn demonstrates once again why he is America's most trenchant historian.(To Begin the World Anew: the Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders)(Book Review)

World and I | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

Edward Shapiro is professor of history emeritus at Seton Hall University. He is completing a book on the Crown Heights (Brooklyn, New York) riot of 1991. 

 
 Book Info:TO BEGIN THE WORLD ANEW 
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders 
Bernard Bailyn 
 Publisher:New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 
187 pp., $26.00

For the last five decades Bernard Bailyn has been the preeminent colonial American historian. According to Professor Richard Beeman of the University of Pennsylvania, Bailyn has been more influential in shaping our understanding of "the content ...

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