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Bernard Bailyn


American historian, author, and professor specializing in U S Colonial and Revolutionary-era History.
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Bernard Bailyn
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
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The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.




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The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.
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