| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Pamela Brandwein. Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 272. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95.

Pamela Brandwein writes: "My strategy for analyzing the production and use of historical meanings has been to place constitutional history, political history, and social history in mutual relation—without (I hope) reducing it all to mush" (p. 189). Alas, Brandwein's hope is in vain. The result of her intellectual labor is an insipid, esoteric, flatulent treatise in the sociology of knowledge, cast in up-to-date Fishian postmodernist discourse. . . .

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