num_pages: 448
description: This book, Mr. Bailyn writes, depicts the fortunes of a conservative in a time of radical upheaval and deals with problems of public disorder and ideological commitment. It is at the same time a dramatic account of the origins of the American Revolution from the viewpoint, not of the winners who became the Founding Fathers, but of the losers, the Loyalists. By portraying the ordeal of the last civilian royal governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Bailyn explains what the human reality was against which the victors struggled and in doing so makes the story of the Revolution fuller and more comprehensible.
language: English
title: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
titlecomplete: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
characters: Thomas Hutchinson
genres: American Revolution, History, American Revolutionary War, American History, War, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 117
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award
category: History
publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press