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Thomas Hutchinson--the Tory governor of Revolutionary Massachusetts whose ordeal Bernard Bailyn sets forth with intelligence and sympathy--would have known exactly what to think. He's have had a well-reasoned, documented analysis proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the whole business was the work of a few hard-core agitators, and that the National Guard's deplorable mistake, like the deplorable war it appeared to safeguard, merely played into the agitator's hands. Unlike Mr. Balser, the principal, Hutchinson could have expressed this analysis convincingly, and acted on it rationally, with historical erudition and political astuteness...
...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-be murderer of its liberties...
...full route of impeachment and trial in the Senate could well generate further evidence against him, even if he were not convicted. It could also sharpen the public perception of criminal culpability, and thus increase the pressure to pursue him in the courts after he left office. The impeachment ordeal is not one that the public or Congress welcomes, and an early resignation could well produce a kind of amnesty for Nixon, a grateful willingness to put Watergate at last behind the nation and leave history to judge the 37th President...
...show is still worth tackling: If you take the time necessary to figure out Pope's thesis the ordeal is worthwhile. You definitely come away feeling you've learned a great deal. But free time is not a plentiful commodity, and a lot of people who don't have it are going to miss the insights that this show offers...
True or False? Stans' ordeal of eight hours and 29 minutes of cross-examination was drawing to an end when Prosecutor John R. Wing demanded...