| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Allan G. Bogue. Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1998. Pp. xviii, 557. $34.95.

Perhaps the name of no American historian stirs more impassioned response than that of Frederick Jackson Turner. An intellectual lightening rod, sparking controversy across decades for his notions about the development of democracy, especially as expressed in the western frontier experience, Turner struck an emotional chord in the collective heart of American thought. Allan G. Bogue, himself the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, undertakes the daunting task of assessing the life of the noted historian, the varied responses to his work and his personality, and the ultimate importance of that emotional chord reverberating through the scholarly community of America. The result is this finely crafted book. 1

Acknowledging that the man and his thought have already inspired volumes, Bogue proposes a dual goal: to mold a human portrait of Turner, as well as track the emergence and evolution of his historical ideas. With so much literature on the subject available, Bogue needed to find a broad platform on which to build yet another lengthy biography of such a well-known subject. Bogue succeeds in doing so, for he bonds his narrative to the development of American higher education in general and Frederick Jackson Turner's place within it. . . .

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