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Title: The British still don't understand
Review: I was profoundly disappointed by this book. I had hoped that the book would contain insight into the thinking of members the British government about the colonies and the Revolution. Instead, I was told how the Revolutionaries were a bunch of paranoids who whined about nothing in particular and who really didn't have it bad at all under British rule. Hibbert makes no attempt to understand the ideological origins of American Revolutionary thought or the historical significance of the American Revolution and Revolutionists such as Washington, Adams, Mason, and Jefferson. This is profoundly bad scholarship, and one would be far better served to read Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood, Pauline Maier, or Rhys Issac.
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