Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at M.I.T. She received her PhD 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 is a gripping and eye-opening read. Maier is a member
of that rare breed of historians who write vividly and with a flair
for depicting dramatic events."
--The Wall Street Journal
"Delightful and engrossing."
--Richard Brookhiser, The New York Times Book Review
"Magisterial . . . it is unlikely that anyone will duplicate what
Maier has done." --Gordon Wood, The New Republic
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