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• catalog abstract "For a quarter of a century, Michael Zuckerman has been provoking - and sometimes almost seducing - his fellow historians to rethink their most cherished assumptions about the American past. Often he starts from a familiar figure or a hallowed interpretation. Always he disguises the familiar, hollows out the hallowed, rearranges what is left, provides a capacious but unexpected context, and emerges with a breathtakingly new conception of an old problem. In his effort to. Remake the meaning of the American tradition, Zuckerman takes the entire sweep of American history for his province. The essays in this collection - including two never before published and a new autobiographical introduction - range from early New England settlements to the corridors of modern Washington. Among his subjects are Puritans and Southern gentry, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Spock, Horatio Alger and Lewis Mumford, P.T. Barnum and Ronald Reagan. Writing of. Scammers and scoundrels, of racists and rebels, and of the purest genius, Zuckerman aims to capture the character of the country, its inner impulsion and its vagrant passions.".
• catalog contributor b4065265.
• catalog coverage "United States Biography.".
• catalog coverage "United States Civilization.".
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "1. The fabrication of identity in early America -- 2. The social context of Democracy in Massachusetts -- 3. Pilgrims in the wilderness: Community, modernity, and the maypole at Merry Mount -- 4. The family life of William Byrd -- 5. The selling of the self: From Franklin to Barnum -- 6. The power of blackness: Thomas Jefferson and the revolution in St. Domingue -- 7. The nursery tales of Horatio Alger -- 8. Faith, hope, not much charity: The optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford -- 9. Dr. Spock: The confidence man -- 10. Ronald Reagan, Charles Beard, and the Constitution: The uses of enchantment.".
• catalog description "For a quarter of a century, Michael Zuckerman has been provoking - and sometimes almost seducing - his fellow historians to rethink their most cherished assumptions about the American past. Often he starts from a familiar figure or a hallowed interpretation. Always he disguises the familiar, hollows out the hallowed, rearranges what is left, provides a capacious but unexpected context, and emerges with a breathtakingly new conception of an old problem. In his effort to.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Remake the meaning of the American tradition, Zuckerman takes the entire sweep of American history for his province. The essays in this collection - including two never before published and a new autobiographical introduction - range from early New England settlements to the corridors of modern Washington. Among his subjects are Puritans and Southern gentry, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Spock, Horatio Alger and Lewis Mumford, P.T. Barnum and Ronald Reagan. Writing of.".
• catalog description "Scammers and scoundrels, of racists and rebels, and of the purest genius, Zuckerman aims to capture the character of the country, its inner impulsion and its vagrant passions.".
• catalog extent "x, 315 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0520066510 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Biography.".
• catalog spatial "United States Civilization.".
• catalog subject "973/.099 20".
• catalog subject "E169.1 .Z883 1993".
• catalog subject "National characteristics, American.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The fabrication of identity in early America -- 2. The social context of Democracy in Massachusetts -- 3. Pilgrims in the wilderness: Community, modernity, and the maypole at Merry Mount -- 4. The family life of William Byrd -- 5. The selling of the self: From Franklin to Barnum -- 6. The power of blackness: Thomas Jefferson and the revolution in St. Domingue -- 7. The nursery tales of Horatio Alger -- 8. Faith, hope, not much charity: The optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford -- 9. Dr. Spock: The confidence man -- 10. Ronald Reagan, Charles Beard, and the Constitution: The uses of enchantment.".
• catalog title "Almost chosen people : oblique biographies in the American grain / Michael Zuckerman.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".