A season of youth: The American Revolution and the historical imagination

By Michael Kammen

Book Overview

"Its methodological freshness--the use of literature and art as historical artifacts, its focus on the popular as a subject for study, the introduction of anthropological tools--alone warrants... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394496515
• ISBN13: 9780394496511
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Changing Revolution

It may take a more sophisticated understanding of history to appreciate a whole book on historiography, but anyone who is more than passingly interested in the American Revolution might want to take at least a browse through Michael Kammen's well-crafted tome. I found that the book challenged me to seperate the Revolution's heady mythology from the truth for the first time. Still more valuable, perhaps, was that as I read the book, I was immersed in the hard cider and bootstraps world of the new Republic. While Kammen lapses occasionally into informal banter and has a rather odd sense of humor, it doesn't detract much from the monumental amount of work, scholarship and insight that is represented here.