Almost chosen people : oblique biographies in the American grain /
For a quarter of a century, Michael Zuckerman has been provoking - and sometimes almost seducing - his fellow historians to rethink their most cherished assumptions about the American past. Often he starts from a familiar figure or a hallowed interpretation. Always he disguises the familiar, hollows...
| Основен автор: | Zuckerman, Michael, 1939- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭1993.
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Almost chosen people. |
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- The fabrication of identity in early America
- The social context of Democracy in Massachusetts
- Pilgrims in the wilderness: Community, modernity, and the maypole at Merry Mount
- The family life of William Byrd
- The selling of the self: From Franklin to Barnum
- The power of blackness: Thomas Jefferson and the revolution in ST. Domingue
- The nursery tales of Horatio Alger
- Faith, hope, not much charity: The optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford
- DR. Spock: The confidence man
- Ronald Reagan, Charles Beard, and the Constitution: The uses of enchantment.