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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Marshall Foletta. Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2001. Pp. x, 303. $45.00.

The title of this book is slightly misleading. The focus is strictly on New England, and readers expecting discussion of the intellectual legacy of Alexander Hamilton, for example, or John Marshall will be disappointed. Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick's The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800 (1993), with its fascinating rendition of a Federalist vision of metropolitan culture, does not even appear in the bibliography. Nevertheless, the place of New England Federalism in American intellectual history is an important subject that has never received such sustained analysis as Marshall Foletta provides in this useful book. Neglect of the subject is somewhat surprising if one recalls studies published between 1965 and 1970 by David Hackett Fischer, James M. Banner, Jr., and Linda Kerber, all suggesting that Federalist ideology was not extinguished in 1800 or 1815. That prior wave of scholarship gives Foletta his point of departure, but he goes beyond all three scholars in emphasizing the ability of a younger generation of Federalists to adapt to changing times. Much of that adaptation took the form of a search for a social role for an intellectual elite. If this book's immediate theme is the acceptance of democracy by the sons of a political elite, its broader subject is a dilemma of American intellectual life. Can intellectuals serve useful roles in society and retain leadership in public life, or must they resign themselves to isolation and irrelevance? . . .

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