| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Hackett Fischer. Liberty and Freedom. (America: A Cultural History, number 3.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. 851. $50.00.

David Hackett Fischer's new book is odd and willfully old fashioned, a giant stew of American exceptionalism, eurocentrism, and Whiggish narrative seasoned with beautiful illustrations and a dash of multicultural inclusion, all stirred together in 736 pages of text. It is also the companion to a traveling exhibition organized by the Virginia Historical Society and one part of Fischer's projected four-volume cultural history of the United States that began with Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways (1989). Fischer proposes here to trace the different but increasingly entwined meanings of liberty and freedom through the images and artifacts of four centuries of American history. At its best, his book leads readers into the rich material culture of colonial and early American history. At its worst, it sounds like a high school history textbook written to please the current Department of Education.

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