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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 nations founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nations aspirations. Americans increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past. Its 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.



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