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Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, emeritus, at Harvard University, where he received a PhD in 1953 and then taught for more than fifty years. His many distinguished works have been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Humanities Medal. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he received an AB from Williams College in 1945 after serving in the Army Signal Corps and the Army Security Agency during World War II. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Bernard Bailyn balances rigor and imagination in studying the past. Now a reflective memoir allows new generations to converse with a master humanist. -- Peter H. Wood, Duke University Bernard Bailyn's stature rests on imaginative analysis, brilliant insights, and superb, finely honed craftsmanship. All these, and his gift for understanding people,...shine in Illuminating History. -- Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut Bernard Bailyn reveals the sources of his own creativity as the greatest historian of colonial and revolutionary America. -- Jack Rakove, Stanford University In this revealing and deeply personal volume, Bailyn gives a moving and characteristically literate account of historical sensibility in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University Illuminating History casts fresh light on a brilliant career. Bernard Bailyn emerges from its pages as a great historian at the peak of his powers. -- Peter Onuf, University of Virginia Marvelous glimpses into the mind of one of America's greatest historians. -- Gordon S. Wood, Brown University In this unusual memoir, Bernard Bailyn reflects on the way his life and historical work have been entwined. The result is creative, compelling, and captivating. -- Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
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