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Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution.
In this narrative and analytic life of Hutchinson, the first since Bernard Bailyn's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography a quarter century ago, Andrew Stephen Walmsley traces Hutchinson's decline from well- respected member of Boston's governing class to America's leading object of revolutionary animus. Walmsley argues that Hutchinson, rather than simply a victim of his inability to understand the passions associated with a revolutionary movement, was in fact defeated in a classic political and personal struggle for power. No mere sycophant for the British, Hutchinson was keenly aware of how much he had to lose if revolutionary forces prevailed, which partially explains his evolution from near- Whig to intransigent loyalist. His consequent vilification became a vehicle through which the growing patriot movement sought to achieve legitimacy.
An entertaining and thought-provoking view of revolutionary events from the perspective of the losing side, Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution tells the story of the American Revolution through the prism of one of its most famous detractors.

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Thomas Hutchinson, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, was one of the first political casualties of the American Revolution. By 1774, events forced his exile from the land where his family had lived for five generations. In his preface, Walmsley writes that "Hutchinson understood that without power, ideals and principles counted for little." It was this belief that led Hutchinson to fight the radicals, and it was this fight that led Hutchinson to his downfall. The revolutionaries blamed the governor for all that was wrong. Because of rumors that he instigated the Stamp Act in 1765, a mob sacked Hutchinson's residence and destroyed documents and personal property. From that moment Hutchinson increasingly distrusted "the common sort." Acting Governor at the time of the Boston Massacre in 1770, he served officially from 1771 to 1774, a period that saw, among other things, the Boston Tea Party. Finally replaced by General Thomas Gage, Hutchinson sailed for England where he died in 1780. Walmsley's study is a candid and readable biography. The work is copiously noted and, although the index contains errors and omissions, the author gives a vivid account of the descent of a controversial and sometimes misunderstood figure of the period. All levels. S. A. Syme Coastal Carolina University