Against the backdrop of the 1960s counter-cultural revolution, Bailyn thoroughly revolutionized the study of America’s past and helped tear down the anachronistically imposed wall of neo-Marxist revisionism. While you may not have heard his name in Good Will Hunting (like his former student, Gordon Wood), Bailyn is one of only four two-time winners of the Pulitzer Prize. Then came Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn, who died at age 97 this past Friday. It was about money, ‘class’, and ‘property’. Beard and his disciples had reduced the creation of the United States to the Founders’ selfish economic motivations. The Revolution was in the Minds and Hearts of the People.īut by the early 20th century, economic historian Charles A. ‘The Revolution was effected before the War commenced,’ the patriot and former president John Adams wrote in 1818.
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