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Zusatztext "For both teachers and students, Lepore's meditation serves as a valuable reminder that the craft of history is inevitably a political act in which we navigate both the realities and, according to Lepore, the 'tyranny of the past.'" ---Richard L. Hughes, Teaching History Informationen zum Autor Jill LeporeWith a new afterword by the author Klappentext "Jill Lepore is a national treasure. There is no other writer so at home both as a trenchant scholar of American history and as an on-the-scene observer of our present-day follies. She etches the connection between past and present with a wisdom, grace, and sparkle that makes this book even harder to put down--if that's possible--than her previous work." --Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves " The Whites of Their Eyes shows Jill Lepore at her remarkable best--accessible, authoritative, and wise." --Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court "Modern Tea Partiers have thrown facts overboard and recast the Revolution in their own image: white, Christian, and ultraconservative. Lepore demolishes the Tea Party's founding fable with deep scholarship and devastating wit." --Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic " The Whites of Their Eyes offers a lesson in what history actually is and how it seems constantly to be used and abused. Lepore is a superb writer." --Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 "This book gives an informed account of the ways contemporary references to the Revolution ignore, distort, run roughshod over, yet somehow attempt seriously to evoke the events of the past. It nicely represents Lepore's distinctive genius as a historian." --Jack N. Rakove, author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Zusammenfassung Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution - so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty - so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Ruth O'Brien ix Prologue: Party Like It's 1773 1 Chapter 1: Ye Olde Media 20 Chapter 2: The Book of Ages 43 Chapter 3: How to Commit Revolution 70 Chapter 4: The Past upon Its Throne 98 Chapter 5: Your Superexcellent Age 126 Epilogue: Revering America 152 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 167 Acknowledgments 177 Notes 179 Index 209 ...
