The author's preface makes it evident that each succeeding
generation must revise the story of "The Formation of the American
Republic, 1776-1790" to suit its changing needs. Even the "New
Historians" found the extent of their influence bounded by time.
The most recent wave of interpreters, with a great deal of newly
available information in hand, sought an "analytical" style, with
no more objective results. Among them, Professor McDonald was one
of the more successful, but here he has made an abrupt departure
from his colleagues and his own previous work. His stance is
bewildering: the book, he says, is "unabashedly 'subjective'" yet
"not only objectively true but objectively verifiable." What he has
done is to redivide the founding fathers into "republicans" and
"federalists" who told utterly conflicting views of mankind.
Granting the generalizations, a novel but pertinent point of view
emerges. It is likely to move the scholarly community to
controversy for some time to come. (Kirkus Reviews)
""An extraordinary book.""
--Gordon S. Wood, Brown University
Having won independence from England, America faced a new question:
Would this be politically one nation, or would it not? "E Pluribus
Unum" is a spirited look at how that question came to be
answered.That the American people introduced a governmental system
adequate to check the very forces unleashed by the
Revolution--this, writes Professor McDonald, "was the miracle of
the age. . . . The French, the Russians, the Italians, the Germans,
all the planet's peoples in their turn, would become so
unrestrained as to lose contact with sanity. The Americans might
have suffered a similar history had they followed the lead of those
who, in 1787 and 1788, spoke in the name . . . of popular 'rights.'
But there were giants on the earth in those days, and they spoke in
the name of the nation. . . ."Forrest McDonald is Professor of
History at the University of Alabama.
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