Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution

Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution - Paperback

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Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution - Paperback

Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution - Paperback

by Andrew M. Schocket
$51.30
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by Andrew M. Schocket (Author)

Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution.

The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in US history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation's aspirations. Americans' increased fascination with the Revolution over the past
two decades represents more than interest in the past. It's also a site to work out the present, and the future. What
are we using the Revolution to debate?

In Fighting over the Founders, Andrew M. Schocket explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. Identifying competing "essentialist" and "organicist" interpretations of the American Revolution, Schocket shows how today's memories of the American Revolution reveal Americans' conflicted ideas about class, about race, and about gender--as well as the nature of history itself. Fighting over the Founders plumbs our views of the past and the present, and illuminates our ideas of what United States means to its citizens in the new millennium.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: February 01, 2017
ISBN9781479884100
Author Andrew M. Schocket
PublisherNew York University Press
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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