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Автор: Hoffer, Peter
Название: Past Imperfect
ISBN: 9781586484453
Издательство: Little Brown
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1586484451
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 03.07.2007
Язык: English
Размер: 213 x 140 x 20
Основная тема: History
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Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today. He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of Americas founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilsons generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male and Protestant.

That flaw would become a fissure and eventually a schism. A new history arose which, written in part by radicals and liberals, had little use for the noble and the heroic, and that rankled many who wanted a celebratory rather than a critical history. To this combustible mixture of elements was added the flame of public debate. History in the 1990s was a minefield of competing passions, political views and prejudices. It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nations most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed by it: Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose and Joseph Ellis.

This is their story, set against the wider narrative of the writing of Americas history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. To which he could have added: falsify, plagiarize and politicize, because thats the other story of Americas history.

Past Imperfect, Hoffer, Peter