Bernard Bailyn was Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

• * Preface * Success of the Acquisitive Man: Portrait of the Provincial Bourgeois * The Face of Revolution * Law and Order, Liberty and Empire * The Furies * The Captive * The Failure of Reason * The "Scape-Goat" * Exile * World's End * Epilogue * Hutchinson Genealogy * Appendix. The Losers: Notes on the Historiography of Loyalism * Note on the Hutchinson Manuscripts * Index

As political biography, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson is without equal in the voluminous literature on the Revolution. No other public figure of the Revolution has found such skillful and sensitive attention.