Faces of revolution : personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence /

Bailyn, Bernard.

Faces of revolution : personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence / Bernard Bailyn. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1992. - xiv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Originally published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: PERSONALITIES: -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas Hutchinson -- Thomas Paine -- The Index and commentaries of Harbottle Dorr -- RELIGION AND REVOLUTION: -- THREE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Andrew Eliot -- Jonathan Mayhew -- Stephen Johnson -- II: THEMES: -- 1776 in Britain and America: a year of challenge, a world transformed -- Political experience and radical ideas in Eighteenth-Century America -- The central themes of the American Revolution -- The ideological fulfillment of the American Revolution.

A portrait of the background, origins, character, and legacy of the American Revolution.

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United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
United States--Biography.

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