The Defense of Rationalism

Doesn’t that title make me sound astoundingly intellectual? It certainly does.

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Prof. Bernard Bailyn is an incredibly engaging work of history arguing that the American Revolution was primarily an intellectual, politically oriented struggle that began in the early 1760s. The work encourages students of history (and everyone else for that matter) to view colonial America’s struggle with the British leviathan in an entirely new light and not merely as a war. Although the subject matter can be a tad boring, Bailyn readily engages his readers with question after question, ponderance after ponderance. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Revolutionary Age of American History.

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