The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution

As the governor of Massachusetts from 1760-1771, Bernard was the local representative of the King of England at the time of the American Revolutionary War. It was he who brought British troops to Boston in 1765, and he who eventually persuaded the king, his ministers and the Parliament that his colony was on the brink of a revolution. This book, a political biography, seeks to reconstruct the process that led the colonists to justify their opposition to Britain by excoriating Bernard as a tyrant and that prompted the governor to denounce colonists like Samuel Adams as revolutionaries. Illustrated with b&w reproductions of period paintings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)