The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776
Illuminating ... Mr. Perl-Rosenthal is excellent on the Revolution’s interpretive flexibility—its capacity to be claimed and reshaped by groups far beyond the Founders’ original horizon ... Widening of the Revolution’s meaning is one of the book’s most persuasive themes and gives substance to the author’s larger claim that the Revolution persists as an unfinished project ... He writes with clarity and a welcome lack of cant, and he has an eye for the telling detail.
Wonderful ... Timely and provocative.
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Unique ... He documents the diminishing ap peal of July 4th oratory and the growing role of the president and Congress in July 4th celebrations and offers recollections about Bicentennial celebrations. The book ends with a sample of orations and maps showing the states in which the orations occurred.
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