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The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival after Yorktown. By Thomas Fleming. (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2007. xvi, 352 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-06-113910-9.)
Thomas Fleming belongs to a tradition of distinguished historians who have written primarily for a general readership. From Carl Van Doren to Barbara Tuchman to David McCullough these historians outside the academy have inspired some envy among academicians of their narrative skills. Where Fleming differs from his peers has been in his concentration on a particular period—the American Revolution—to which he has contributed a dozen earlier studies . . .
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