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- catalog abstract ""Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. Named the sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is one of our most eminent historians and the author of numerous works on the early American Republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Renowned for his sly wit and iconoclasm, he is also a conservative in a mostly liberal profession, a man who believes that his discipline has been subverted by those who serve public policy agendas. In this book, he recounts and reconsiders his own career, mixing in equal measure autobiography and a critique of the historical craft." "Beginning in 1949, McDonald has traversed a sometimes rocky academic road from Brown University to Wayne State and finally the University of Alabama. He rose to prominence by arguing against the popular histories of Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles Beard, and his rebuttal of Beard was published as his seminal book We the People. Recovering the Past carries forward this critical tradition with McDonald's pointed comments on fellow historians from Kenneth Stampp to William Appleton Williams, his admiration for Oscar Handlin's book Truth in History, and his distaste for the revisionism of the New Left historians who depict the American story as an epic of oppression."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13308175.
- catalog coverage "United States Historiography.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Beginning in 1949, McDonald has traversed a sometimes rocky academic road from Brown University to Wayne State and finally the University of Alabama. He rose to prominence by arguing against the popular histories of Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles Beard, and his rebuttal of Beard was published as his seminal book We the People. Recovering the Past carries forward this critical tradition with McDonald's pointed comments on fellow historians from Kenneth Stampp to William Appleton Williams, his admiration for Oscar Handlin's book Truth in History, and his distaste for the revisionism of the New Left historians who depict the American story as an epic of oppression."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. Named the sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is one of our most eminent historians and the author of numerous works on the early American Republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Renowned for his sly wit and iconoclasm, he is also a conservative in a mostly liberal profession, a man who believes that his discipline has been subverted by those who serve public policy agendas. In this book, he recounts and reconsiders his own career, mixing in equal measure autobiography and a critique of the historical craft."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "On the historical enterprise. -- The world as I entered it. -- A new game and a new player. -- The adventures of We the people. -- A barefoot boy in the Ivy League, and a lot of new players. -- The sixties, seventies, and a bit beyond. -- The grand finale. -- Appendix: The intellectual world of the founding fathers.".
- catalog extent "vii, 198 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Recovering the past.".
- catalog identifier "0700613293 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Recovering the past.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Recovering the past.".
- catalog spatial "United States Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973/.072/02 22".
- catalog subject "E175.5.M395 A3 2004".
- catalog subject "Historians United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Historiography United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "McDonald, Forrest.".
- catalog tableOfContents "On the historical enterprise. -- The world as I entered it. -- A new game and a new player. -- The adventures of We the people. -- A barefoot boy in the Ivy League, and a lot of new players. -- The sixties, seventies, and a bit beyond. -- The grand finale. -- Appendix: The intellectual world of the founding fathers.".
- catalog title "Recovering the past : a historian's memoir / Forrest McDonald.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".