Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Best of Booknotes TV: "To Begin the World Anew" by Bernard Bailyn

"With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements."

watch interview

related: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1998 Jefferson Lecture:

To Begin the World Anew: Politics and Creative Imagination