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Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97

by AP National Writer
| August 9, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and educator of lasting influence whose “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” transformed how many thought about the country’s formation, has died at 97.

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