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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...

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Autor principal: Zuckerman, Michael, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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