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A bestseller throughout much of the nineteenth century, the work is regarded by some as an unjustly neglected classic. In Bancroft s eyes, the United States was destined to become a leader among nations, and his volumes traced America s inexorable march toward revolution, freedom, and manifest destiny. Read in the context of his time, his work remains an epic of Homeric proportions, and compares favorably with the great European histories of that era. George Athan Billias is professor of history emeritus at Clark University, where he taught for twenty-seven years. Founding Father and Republican Statesman .