Bailyn's Ideological Origins

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Submitted by Harry Binswanger (United States), Aug 9, 2020 09:52

Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution has been a treasured friend for 50 years.

My favorite passage:

"The colonists had no doubt about what power was and about its central, dynamic role in any political system. . . . 'Power' to them meant the dominion of some men over others, the human control of human life: ultimately force, compulsion."

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