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Apparently the hard line taken by professors Handlin, Bernard Bailyn and David S. Landes against any change in general exams as now constituted has more support than the objections of professors such as Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Patrick L.R. Higonnet '58 and Giles Constable '50 that the senior faculty has a responsibility to take another look at generals and prevent another 1973 from recurring...
...lots more Pulitzers descend on Bailyn...
Among the HUP's recent best sellers are: "The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare" by Marvin Spevack, "The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson" by Bernard Bailyn, "Families and Family Therapy" by Salvador Minuchin and "Impeachment" by Raoul Berger. Each sold over 10,000 copies...
...Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution dealt with the political philosophy of American radicals--their belief that only constant, militant vigilance and strict adherence to governmental forms limited by internal balances could check the corruption power inevitably causes among its possessors. Ideological Origins is a book remarkable for its wit and its style, as well as its persuasiveness. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson is only slightly less well written, but it approaches the Revolution from the other side--from the point of view of someone whom the Revolutionaries saw only as a traitor to his country and would...
...great strength of Bailyn's book that it understands and apparently sympathizes with both sides--but especially with Hutchinson, the embattled loser--and yet acknowledges that the future and America's hopes lay with Hutchinson's opponents...