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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 Ph.D. 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.

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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Chicago Sun-Times, December 3, 2011
...Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individual to a key Administration post: · Pauline Maier - Member, Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation The President also announced his intent...
Esquire, December 2, 2011
...father's is astounding. For some rage never dies. But it can be channeled. —TYLER CABOT Ratification By Pauline Maier I'm not exactly sure when bipartisan became a synonym for infantile. The United States of America, as it is constitutionally defined,...
Booktv, December 2, 2011
...American History TV C-SPAN Radio Presidential Libraries American Presidents C-SPAN Video Library Q&A American Writers C-SPAN in the Community StudentCam Blair House Capitol Hearings Students & Leaders Booknotes Capitol...
New York Times, November 22, 2011
...all the senior scholars in attendance were so quick to embrace the “I” word. In her keynote address, Pauline Maier, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of “Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution,...
Maisonnueve, October 17, 2011
...to change the system at first, but rather stop the more powerful from abusing it. Another American historian, Pauline Maier, wrote that “the colonists sought a past that could not be rewon, indeed if it had ever existed.” This is from a book called...
Jackson Sun, October 13, 2011
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology history professor and author of "American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence," Pauline Maier reminded students from all over West Tennessee that the U.S. Constitution is about the rights of its people....
Guam Pacific Daily News, September 17, 2011
...30 campuses all over the country, with distinguished speakers ranging from Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to historian Pauline Maier, to Lt. Gen Josiah Bunting III, to Justice Antonin Scalia, and featuring debates over issues such as the status of...
Journal-Gazette, February 20, 2012
...down in the present. They were deeply empirical in their political thinking. Massachusetts Institute of Technology history professor Pauline Maier said: It is interesting why so many politicians and even judges today want to show that their ideas had...
Journal-Gazette, February 20, 2012
...down in the present. They were deeply empirical in their political thinking. Massachusetts Institute of Technology history professor Pauline Maier said: It is interesting why so many politicians and even judges today want to show that their ideas had...
Balkinization, July 28, 2011
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PoliticalArticles.NET, July 5, 2011
...wise and illuminating study of the original tea party . 3. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier . — The definitive book, and a thrilling read, on the writing of the Declaration. 4. The Federalist Papers (See all...
PoliticalArticles.NET, July 5, 2011
...wise and illuminating study of the original tea party . 3. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier . — The definitive book, and a thrilling read, on the writing of the Declaration. 4. The Federalist Papers (See all...
The Imaginative Conservative, July 4, 2011
...decided to devote the biography to our second rather than to our third president. As the distingished historian  Pauline Maier notes , "McCullough's biography of Adams inevitably has a lot to say about Jefferson, but on virtually all points of...
History News Network, May 26, 2011
...s Mount Vernon, honoring the year's best book about America's founding era, has been awarded to Pauline Maier for Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (Simon & Schuster, 2010). Bio:  ...