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The Air-Line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing About America
The AirLine to Seattle Studies in Literary and Historical Writing About America Author: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 individu... more »alistic philosophy to misinterpretations of the lives of Emerson, Walter Lippmann, Hemingway and Max Perkins. In each case, Lynn reveals the tendency of literary and and intellectual historians to impose precooked formulas upon the evidence they profess to study.« less