| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Emily Bingham. Mordecai: An Early American Family. New York: Hill and Wang. 2003. Pp. x, 346. $26.00.

Using the letters, diaries, newspaper articles, and books written by one of America's earliest Jewish families, Emily Bingham weaves an evocative story of the Mordecai family that unfolds over three generations, from the Continental Congress to the razing of Richmond by the Union Army. Bingham uses methodological techniques and scholarly sources in an innovative way to bridge the personal history of one family with the history of the nation at large. Moreover, she uses a narrative voice in the telling of that history. In some places, the book reads as a novel; in other places it is more stilted, confined by the language and events Bingham's historical subjects chose to share with one another and consequently, through Bingham, with us.

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