Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution

by Andrew Walmsley

Book Overview

Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution.
In this narrative and analytic life of Hutchinson, the first since Bernard Bailyn's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography a quarter century ago, Andrew Stephen Walmsley traces Hutchinson's decline from well- respected member of Boston's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081479341X
• ISBN13: 9780814793411
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"