Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers,
jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American
Revolution. The American Revolution is all around us. It is
pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps,
evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns,
relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's
founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of
powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most
contested event in US history: more than any other, it stands as a
proxy for how Americans perceive the nation's aspirations.
Americans' increased fascination with the Revolution over the past
two decades represents more than interest in the past. It's also a
site to work out the present, and the future. What are we using the
Revolution to debate? In Fighting over the Founders, Andrew M.
Schocket explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists,
biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray
the American Revolution. Identifying competing "essentialist" and
"organicist" interpretations of the American Revolution, Schocket
shows how today's memories of the American Revolution reveal
Americans' conflicted ideas about class, about race, and about
gender-as well as the nature of history itself. Fighting over the
Founders plumbs our views of the past and the present, and
illuminates our ideas of what United States means to its citizens
in the new millennium.
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