A01=Kenneth S. Lynn
Author_Kenneth S. Lynn
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226498331
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 15 x 28mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1984
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
