By Jill Lepore
Americans have constantly positioned the previous to political ends. The Union laid declare to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders acknowledged they have been the genuine sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This ebook tells the tale of the centuries-long fight over the which means of the nation's founding, together with the conflict waged by way of the Tea occasion, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "take again America."
Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker employees author, deals a wry and bemused examine American background in accordance with the a ways correct, from the "rant heard around the world," which introduced the Tea social gathering, to the Texas tuition Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that the U.S. used to be verified as a Christian state. alongside the way in which, she presents infrequent perception into the eighteenth-century fight for independence--the genuine one, that's. Lepore strains the roots of the a long way right's reactionary heritage to the bicentennial within the Seventies, while not anyone might agree on what tale a divided kingdom should still inform approximately its unruly beginnings. at the back of the Tea Party's Revolution, she argues, lies a nostalgic or even heartbreaking craving for an imagined past--a time much less by way of ambiguity, strife, and uncertainty--a longing for an the United States that by no means was.
The Whites in their Eyes finds that the a ways correct has embraced a story approximately America's founding that's not just a delusion yet is additionally, eventually, a number of fundamentalism--anti-intellectual, antihistorical, and dangerously antipluralist.
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