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19/100Critics
40/100Scholars
Author:
Bernard Bailyn
Publisher:
W. W. Norton Company
Date:
April 14, 2020
Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Now, Bailyn presents an intellectual memoir of the significant turns in an immensely productive and influential scholarly career, alive with people whose actions touched the long arc of American history.
What The Reviewers Say
...an elegant and engaging memoir.
The book’s blurb billing it as a 'self-portrait' is somewhat misleading. Illuminating History is not an intellectual memoir, but rather a miscellany — a collection of sometimes fascinating, often arcane historical essays, written in Bailyn’s elegant but orotund style.
Bailyn...offers a fascinating reflection on intellectual enthusiasms and challenges that have marked his long, prolific career.
Bailyn...offers a fascinating reflection on intellectual enthusiasms and challenges that have marked his long, prolific career.
