The 20th century’s foremost scholar of the American revolutionary era was Harvard professor Bernard Bailyn who died last year aged 97. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for history twice. The first was in 1968 for his analysis of every political pamphlet, newspapers and private letter he could get his hands on from the 1700s.
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