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The Air-Line to Seattle
University of Chicago Press, 1984 Cloth: 978-0-226-49832-4 | Paper: 978-0-226-49833-1 Library of Congress Classification E175.L93 1983 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.072
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly candid book, Kenneth S. Lynn argues that too many of our current commentators on the American past are out of touch with historical reality. His targets range from the currently fashionable but fantastic idea that the Declaration of Independence derives from a communitarian rather than individualistic philosophy to misinterpretations of the lives of Emerson, Walter Lippmann, Hemingway, and Max Perkins. In each case Lynn reveals the tendency of literary and intellectual historians to impose precooked formulas upon the evidence they profess to study. See other books on: American literature | Historiography | History and criticism | In literature | Seattle See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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