Almost chosen people : oblique biographies in the American grain /
For a quarter of a century, Michael Zuckerman has been provoking - and sometimes almost seducing - his fellow historians to rethink their most cherished assumptions about the American past. Often he starts from a familiar figure or a hallowed interpretation. Always he disguises the familiar, hollows...
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