| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic. Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 435p. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.)

Beyond the Founders is a valuable collection of essays that introduces a new way of looking at the political history of the early republic. The editors set out their framework by arguing that historians need only scratch the surface of postrevolutionary political history, recently dominated by "founders chic" (p. 1), to find groups of Americans both divided and unified by race, political perspective, class, gender, region, nationality, geographic focus, and religion. It is there, in that sea of people with views and aspirations that sometimes coalesced and sometimes conflicted, that the editors find their new political history. Clearly, these new political historians are as interested in constituents as they are in elite leaders, but they are also interested in how various groups utilized ideology and political culture to define their aspirations.

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