Air-Line to Seattle

By Kenneth S. Lynn

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226498328
• ISBN13: 9780226498324
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.