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Times That Try Men's Souls |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: J.B. Cheaney |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 3,124 Words, 19,084 Characters |
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THE HORNET'S NEST
A Novel of the Revolutionary War
Jimmy Carter
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003
465 pp., $27.00
BRAVE ENEMIES
A Novel of the American Revolution
Robert Morgan
Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2003
309 pp., $24.95
Of all our icons, the American Revolution was the last to fall. Our "founding myth" has held off revisionism until our own day, and for good reason. Compared to most countries, which develop over centuries of organic growth and deep-rooted tradition, the United States appeared in an eyeblink. In 1774, most American colonists were not even considering independence--eight years later, they were citizens of a new nation struggling to find its place in the world. If ever a country needed a founding myth, it was ours. Over the next thirty years, American biographe...
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...ighting have shaken our national confidence and exposed divides as deep as any during the years between 1775 and 1782. Again, or still, we are struggling to define ourselves. More than ever, we need the work of historians, novelists, and filmmakers to interpret where we've been, so that we can understand where we want to go. But the great novel of the American Revolution has yet to be written.
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