| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution. By Andrew Stephen Walmsley. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xx, 207 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8147-9341-X.)

Thomas Hutchinson remains a perennially fascinating figure in the history and historiography of the American Revolution. Andrew Stephen Walmsley provides a concise and well-researched summary of Hutchinson's life and career with special attention to the political forces that were increasingly mobilized against him. Given the strong opposition tradition in the colony, no Massachusetts royal appointees had particularly comfortable terms in office, and Hutchinson, one of the few colonial governors born and bred in the New World, also carried the baggage of domestic enemies made over his political lifetime—especially in relation to his appointment as chief justice of the superior court—into his administration. The Sugar and Stamp acts (incidentally, George Grenville did not have a knighthood, nor did the opposition member of parliament Isaac Barre) began the process of consolidating and radicalizing the opposition, leaving Hutchinson beleaguered, more and more isolated, and finally demonized. . . .

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