Main was the grandson of Frederick Jackson Turner,[1] who was widely known for his acclaimed and sometimes controversial work Frontier Thesis.
[2] In 1942, he was a sergeant in the United States Army Signal Corps stationed at Camp Crowder, Missouri.
At the same time acquaintance with recent literature on the class structure of contemporary America suggested that similar techniques might profitably be applied to an earlier period.
The present work is therefore preliminary both to a more general history of the revolutionary years and to an account of America’s social development.
[9] Jackson Turner Main died at the age of 85 in Boulder, Colorado, on October 19, 2003, from a lung illness.