Summary
The writing genre known as narrative nonfiction requires the writer to come up with a story line that is more than the historians recitation of facts. That is a problem when the story forces inconvenient or contradictory facts to the sideline or off the page altogether.
Now comes Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, with his latest slice of the rich layer cake that is the history of our Republics birth. Mr. Ellis has done his research and the books narrative is flawed but withal an easy, almost seductive, read.See the full content of this document
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Thinking Anew About Our Nation's Founding
More, "American Creation" is well worth your $26.95, because the story he tells is an innovative and provocative take on the vagaries and changing personalities (and attitudes) that began at Lexington and Concord and staggered all the way to the Louisiana Purchase where he, with reason, ends his tale.
So Mr. Ellis provides us with an antidote to those who use th...See the full content of this document
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