His book, which won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1968, influenced an entire generation of historians. These radical ideas about power and liberty, and deeply rooted fears of conspiracy, had propelled Americans in the 1760s and 1770s into the Revolution, Bailyn said. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, the most famous of his works, Bailyn uncovered a set of ideas among the Revolutionary generation that most historians had scarcely known existed. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution., In every area of Bernard Bailyn's research-whether Virginia society of the 17th century or the schools of early America-he transformed what historians had hitherto thought about the subject. In every area of Bernard Bailyn's research-whether Virginia society of the 17th century or the schools of early America-he transformed what historians had hitherto thought about the subject.
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