![]() But for all their variety they have in common one distinctive characteristic: they are, to an unusual degree, explanatory. ![]() ![]() The pamphlets include all sorts of writings - treatises on political theory, essays on history, political arguments, sermons, correspondence, poems - and they display all sorts of literary devices. But sheer numbers were not the most important measure of the magnitude of the project. In the end I concluded that no fewer than seventy-two of them ought to be re-published. ![]() The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred. This book has developed from a study that was first undertaken a number of years ago, when Howard Mumford Jones, then editor-in-chief of the John Harvard Library, invited me to prepare a collection of pamphlets of the American Revolution for publication in that series. ![]()
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