The Air-line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing About America Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Air-line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing About America Book

In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly candid book, Kenneth S. Lynn argues that too many of our current commentators on the American past are out of touch with historical reality. His targets range from the currently fashionable but fantastic idea that the Declaration of Independence derives from a communitarian rather than individualistic philosophy to misinterpretations of the lives of Emerson, Walter Lippmann, Hemingway, and Max Perkins. In each case Lynn reveals the tendency of literary and intellectual historians to impose precooked formulas upon the evidence they profess to study.Read More

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  • 0226498336
  • 9780226498331
  • Lynn
  • 1 December 1984
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 238
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