Bailyn, Bernard. To begin the world anew: the genius and ambiguities of the American founders.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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BAILYN, Bernard. TO begin the world anew: the genius and ambiguities of the American founders. Random House, Vintage. 192p. illus. bibliog. c2003. 0-375-71308-5. $13.00. SA

Noted Harvard historian Bailyn looks carefully at the era of the founders in general and at Jefferson and Franklin in particular in these essays on the originality of the 18th-century American political thinkers. His prose is liquid, highly accessible, and exceptionally informative on the mindsets and the ...

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