Fighting over the Founders : : How We Remember the American Revolution / / Andrew M. Schocket.
Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Truths That Are Not Self-Evident: The Revolution in Political Speech
- 2 We Have Not Yet Begun to Write: Historians and Founders Chic
- 3 We the Tourists: The Revolution at Museums and Historical Sites
- 4 Give Me Liberty’s Kids: How the Revolution Has Been Televised and Filmed
- 5 To Re-create a More Perfect Union: Originalism, the Tea Party, and Reenactors
- Conclusion
- Further Readings
- Index
- About the Author