| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Conrad Edick Wright. Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 298. $34.95.

If you were the principal scholar behind a collection of biographical sketches such as a volume of Sibley's Harvard Graduates, how would you make the data collected valuable to a larger audience than dedicated alumni? Conrad Edick Wright has met the challenge by combining life-cycle and life-course approaches to tell the story of the cohort of young men who composed Harvard's entering classes of 1771–1774, those who experienced eastern Massachusetts' involvement in the American Revolution. The significance of this cohort, he maintains, is that their lives, individually and collectively, were altered by the revolutionary experience to a degree that set them apart from their predecessors at Harvard.

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