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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1992 ISBN-10: 0-674-44302-0 / 0674443020 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-44302-0 / 9780674443020 The leaders of the American Revolution, writes the distinguished historian Bernard Bailyn, were radicals. But their concern was not to correct inequalities of class or income, not to remake the social order, but to "purify a corrupt constitution and fight off the apparent growth of prerogative power |