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Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir
Forrest McDonald
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Hardcover. Forrest McDonald is the NEH's sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer, an eminent historians and the author of numerous works on the early American republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Here he recounts and reconsiders his own career, mixing in equal measure autobiography with a sharp critique of the historical craft. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. The NEH's sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer he is one of our most eminent historians and the author of numerous provocative works on the early American republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Renowned for his sly wit and iconoclasm, he is also a conservative in a mostly liberal profession, a man who believes that his discipline has been subverted by those who serve public policy agendas. He now candidly recounts and reconsiders his own career, mixing in equal measure autobiography with a sharp critique of the historical craft. Beginning in 1949, McDonald ... Read more
Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. The NEH's sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer he is one of our most eminent historians and the author of numerous provocative works on the early American republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Renowned for his sly wit and iconoclasm, he is also a conservative in a mostly liberal profession, a man who believes that his discipline has been subverted by those who serve public policy agendas. He now candidly recounts and reconsiders his own career, mixing in equal measure autobiography with a sharp critique of the historical craft. Beginning in 1949, McDonald ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700613298
SKU
V9780700613298
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About Forrest McDonald
Forrest McDonald is Distinguished University Research Professor emeritus at the University of Alabama. His previous books include Novus Ordo Seclorum; The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution; The American Presidency: An Intellectual History (see page 34); and States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876
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