Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT and the author of several books and textbooks on American history, including 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 for the National Book Critics' Circle Award.
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Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament. In Maier'... SEE MORE