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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Recovering the past: a historian's memoir
2004, University Press of Kansas
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