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The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle Over American History
by Jill Lepore
Princeton University Press, 207 pp., $19.95
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Demonstrators at a rally against health care reform, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2010
America’s Founding Fathers have a special significance for the American public. People want to know what Thomas Jefferson would think of affirmative action, or how George Washington would regard the invasion of Iraq. No other major nation honors its historical characters in quite the way we do. The British don’t have to check in periodically with, say, either of the two William Pitts to find out what a historical figure of two centuries ago might think of David Cameron’s government in the way we seem to have to check in with Jefferson or Washington about our current policies and predicaments. Americans seem to have a special need for these authentic historical figures in the here and now.
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