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Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "take back America." Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, offers a careful and concerned look at American history according to the far right, from the "rant heard round the world," which launched the Tea Party, to the Texas School Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that the United States was established as a Christian nation. Along the way, she provides rare insight into the eighteenth-century struggle for independence--a history of the Revolution, from the archives. Lepore traces the roots of the far right's reactionary history to the bicentennial in the 1970s, when no one could agree on what story a divided nation should tell about its unruly beginnings. Behind the Tea Party's Revolution, she argues, lies a nostalgic and even heartbreaking yearning for an imagined past--a time less troubled by ambiguity, strife, and uncertainty--a yearning for an America that never was. The Whites of Their Eyes reveals that the far right has embraced a narrative about America's founding that is not only a fable but is also, finally, a variety of fundamentalism--anti-intellectual, antihistorical, and dangerously antipluralist. In a new afterword, Lepore addresses both the recent shift in Tea Party rhetoric from the Revolution to the Constitution and the diminished role of scholars as political commentators over the last half century of public debate.… (més)
Jill Lepore is amazing and I love her. Her writing style comes across like poetry sometimes but her insights and ideas about history are why I enjoy her books so much. One of the most memorable digs she puts in the book is about how detrimental it is for historians to no longer write histories of the United States from the beginning until the present. She says not many historians want to take that on because of all the controversy and difficulty it would be to do. But....she says if historians don't continue to do that then people will start writing history books that are less than qualified, like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Riley. I've thought something similar to that as I'm browsing Barnes and Nobles and I see all the Fox News guys (and gals) with these new books about our founding and our founding fathers. I think how shitty that is since people believe what these people say as fact and I'm positive a lot of their book is just as bias as their television shows. Disgusting. I love you Jill Lepore ( )
Jill Lepore is amazing and I love her. Her writing style comes across like poetry sometimes but her insights and ideas about history are why I enjoy her books so much. One of the most memorable digs she puts in the book is about how detrimental it is for historians to no longer write histories of the United States from the beginning until the present. She says not many historians want to take that on because of all the controversy and difficulty it would be to do. But....she says if historians don't continue to do that then people will start writing history books that are less than qualified, like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Riley. I've thought something similar to that as I'm browsing Barnes and Nobles and I see all the Fox News guys (and gals) with these new books about our founding and our founding fathers. I think how shitty that is since people believe what these people say as fact and I'm positive a lot of their book is just as bias as their television shows. Disgusting. I love you Jill Lepore ( )
Jill Lepore is amazing and I love her. Her writing style comes across like poetry sometimes but her insights and ideas about history are why I enjoy her books so much. One of the most memorable digs she puts in the book is about how detrimental it is for historians to no longer write histories of the United States from the beginning until the present. She says not many historians want to take that on because of all the controversy and difficulty it would be to do. But....she says if historians don't continue to do that then people will start writing history books that are less than qualified, like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Riley. I've thought something similar to that as I'm browsing Barnes and Nobles and I see all the Fox News guys (and gals) with these new books about our founding and our founding fathers. I think how shitty that is since people believe what these people say as fact and I'm positive a lot of their book is just as bias as their television shows. Disgusting. I love you Jill Lepore ( )
This is a book about the politicization of the history of the American Revolution. Lepore switches back and forth between the events of the actual revolution and the interpretation of those events during the 1976 bicentennial and by the tea party. This is an important work for people concerned about our history is taught to kids. ( )
Insightful and a pleasure to read too. Moves smoothly back and forth between the Tea Party interpretation of the American Revolution and the known historical record. She doesn't spare the Tea Party ideologues and their manipulation of historical facts, but she's got respect for many of the local Tea Party activists she meets who ignore the Glenn Beck bluster and try to keep 'haters' of any kind out of their events. ( )
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Lashed to a dock in the oldest working shipyard in America, the Boston Tea Party Ship, or what was left of her, sat in a dozen feet of brackish water in Gloucester Harbor.
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Down below, the ship's rudder was bound with rope, held fast against the ocean's everyday sway and the magnificent violence of each passing storm.
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "take back America." Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, offers a careful and concerned look at American history according to the far right, from the "rant heard round the world," which launched the Tea Party, to the Texas School Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that the United States was established as a Christian nation. Along the way, she provides rare insight into the eighteenth-century struggle for independence--a history of the Revolution, from the archives. Lepore traces the roots of the far right's reactionary history to the bicentennial in the 1970s, when no one could agree on what story a divided nation should tell about its unruly beginnings. Behind the Tea Party's Revolution, she argues, lies a nostalgic and even heartbreaking yearning for an imagined past--a time less troubled by ambiguity, strife, and uncertainty--a yearning for an America that never was. The Whites of Their Eyes reveals that the far right has embraced a narrative about America's founding that is not only a fable but is also, finally, a variety of fundamentalism--anti-intellectual, antihistorical, and dangerously antipluralist. In a new afterword, Lepore addresses both the recent shift in Tea Party rhetoric from the Revolution to the Constitution and the diminished role of scholars as political commentators over the last half century of public debate.
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