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Handlin follows a time-honored Harvard path--illuminate the broadest themes of American history by covering everything. At its best, this tradition has produced Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...
...PITFALLS OF heroic history writing are amply revealed in the Handlins' book. Wood and Bailyn were guided by a brilliant refinement and reinterpretation of American history. But where such an epic approach is not guided by inspiration, the result is often technically satisfying but not terribly original work...
Department members said Adams UniversityProfessor Bernard Bailyn, Loeb UniversityProfessor Emeritus Oscar Handlin and TrumbullProfessor of American History Donald Flemingobjected to promoting Brinkley. The three areproponents of what Huggins called "the Harvardstyle of American history," an approach that seesthe field as sprawling and eschews specialization...
They said Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn, Handlin and Trumbell Professor of American History Donald Fleming were among those who sunk the 33-year-old scholar's tenure chances with letters and comments to Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence...
...Harvard bigwigs were asked "for the titles of four to six books and the reasons why each book came to mind," as the editors write in their introduction. Some big names, including professors Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Jay Gould, John Kenneth Galbraith and Stanley Hoffmann even took the time to respond. Alan Dershowitz is not represented, maybe because respondents were not allowed to list their own works...