![]() ![]() The resonance of his Ideological Origins, therefore, seems its own evidence that the Revolution he described has not ended, that the American Revolutionary project, as he laid it out in these pages, was alive in the 1960s when he originally wrote them, and remains alive and even larger and loftier in its aspirations today, though it also remains fragile and always in danger of perishing, like all living creations. Bailyn studiously avoided and constantly denied any direct engagement between his work and contemporary politics, either in the 1960s or in the sixty more years before his death. ![]() Though published over fifty years ago, in 1967, the themes charted in Bernard Bailyn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, are so crucial to the American experiment in governance and the nation’s ongoing Revolution of equality, liberty, and self-government that they seem almost as if they might have been written to pointedly address our current concerns. Bernard Bailyn (1922-2020), who died on Aug. ![]() Mead, reflects on the influential work of Harvard University professor Dr. In this special installment of Read the Revolution, our chief historian, Dr. ![]()
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