| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Canada and the United States

Joyce Appleby. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 322. $26.00.

This concise, elegant study succeeds at almost every level. Joyce Appleby explores the sensibilities of the first generation of Americans, those who began coming of age in the 1790s with no personal memories of the colonial era and its monarchical roots and who remained active until about 1830. Although her mastery of the scholarship of the early republic verges on the encyclopedic, she draws primarily on over two hundred autobiographies published by members of this cohort, including several women and African Americans. Autobiographies, rare in the colonial era, became immensely popular in the early republic. Appleby's specific findings will not startle the experts in this period, but her synthesis is persuasive—indeed, compelling. No one else has pulled together a comparable range of materials with the impact and literary grace that this book carries. . . .

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