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Pauline Maier

Pauline Maier
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Pauline Maier

Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at M.I.T. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1968. She is the author of several books and textbooks on American history, including From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776, The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams, and American Scripture, which was on the New York Times Book Review "Editor's Choice" list of the best 11 books of 1997 and a finalist in General Nonfiction for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Ratification will be released on June 07, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Jun 07, 2011
Ratification is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 07, 2011
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Dec 01, 2010
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Nov 23, 2010
Ratification will be released on November 23, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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FORA.tv, October 27, 2012
...1975. The series has featured lectures by Samuel Eliot Morison, Edmund S. Morgan, David McCullough, Gordon S. Wood, Pauline Maier and other leading historians of the American Revolution. The George Rogers Clark Lecture is made possible through the...
Huffington Post, December 23, 2012
..." Determining "original intention" is no scientific endeavor providing absolute clear answers, as Bork wanted us to believe. Pauline Maier's recent book, "Ratification," the most thorough examination we have of the constitutional understanding of...
Capital Times, December 23, 2012
...intention.” Determining “original intention” is no scientific endeavor providing absolutely clear answers, as Bork wanted us to believe. Pauline Maier’s recent book, “Ratification,” the most thorough examination we have of the...
Capital Times, December 23, 2012
...intention.” Determining “original intention” is no scientific endeavor providing absolutely clear answers, as Bork wanted us to believe. Pauline Maier’s recent book, “Ratification,” the most thorough examination we have of the...
Yahoo! News, December 19, 2012
...the three men who refused to sign the Constitution, contributed to the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Pauline Maier, author of the book Ratification, noted: “Without their determined opposition, the first ten amendments would not have become a part...
Yahoo!, December 15, 2012
...the three men who refused to sign the Constitution, contributed to the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Pauline Maier, author of the book Ratification, noted: “Without their determined opposition, the first ten amendments would not have become a part of...
Esquire, December 3, 2012
...downcast eyes and the word, "Massa." For me, I associated myself years ago with the remarks of Pauline Maier, who called TJ the most overrated man in American history.) Nothing has so illustrated the distance between the courtier press, and the elites...
Lowell Sun, October 7, 2012
...a lecture in Boston inspired by the work of colonial lawyer and Patriot James Otis. This year, professors Pauline Maier of MIT and Gordon Wood of Brown University spoke about the Constitution and Anti-Federalists.Advertisement...