| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John Seelye. Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. 1998. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp. xv. 699. $39.95.

The Mayflower could have sailed across the Atlantic nine times in the period it took to complete this review. A comprehensive narrative of the rise and fall of Plymouth Rock in American historical consciousness over the course of a century and a half (1769–1920), with 645 pages of text, looks as formidable as the ancient boulder on which the Pilgrims supposedly landed in December 1620. That appearance is not entirely deceiving. John Seelye delights in the oddities and ironies in the saga of the famous rock and of the region it came to symbolize, so much so that even inveterate lovers of New England may regret that the author has not picked up a little Yankee reticence along with his learning and wit. Nonetheless, if readers are willing to book passage on Seelye's ship and trust in the captain's leisurely course, they will be rewarded with an absorbing account of how a rock indistinguishable from numerous others along the New England shore came to embody a region's ambitions and a nation's identity. . . .

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