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Us citizens have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid state to the Revolution - so do the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the real sons of liberty - so do Southern segregationists. This publication tells the story of the centuries-long have difficulties over this is of the country's founding, like the battle waged by the Tea Get together, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "get back America". Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker personnel copy writer, offers a wry and bemused look at American history based on the much right, from the "rant heard round the world", which launched the Tea Get together, to the Tx College Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that america was founded as a Christian nation. On the way, she provides uncommon insight in to the 18th-century have difficulties for freedom - the true one, that is. Lepore traces the roots of the much right's reactionary history to the bicentennial in the 1970s, when no one could agree on what storyline a divided nation should inform about its unruly origins. Behind the Tea Party's Revolution, she argues, sits a nostalgic and even heartbreaking yearning for an imagined former - a time less stressed by ambiguity, strife, and uncertainty - a yearning for an America that never was. The Whites of the Eyes reveals that the much right has embraced a narrative about America's founding that's not only a fable, but is also, finally, a variety of fundamentalism - anti-intellectual, antihistorical, and dangerously antipluralist.
