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June, 2005
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America Rising

By C. Edward Skeen
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xvi, 299. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $35.00.)

Sometimes a period of time seems to focus events, trends, and meanings in such a way that it defines an era, casts a deep shadow, or fixes the terms of collective experience for a generation. In living memory, December 7, 1941, the year 1968, and September 11, 2001, stand out as examples of such focusing. Historians of the early American republic have recently been drawn to similar red-letter periods: Andrew Burstein in America's Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation Remembered Fifty Years of Independence (2002) and Louis P. Masur in 1831: Year of Eclipse (2001). In 1990 Kenneth Stampp published America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, an events-driven look at an action-packed year that virtually guaranteed the coming of the American Civil War. In 1943 Bernard De Voto published what is still my personal favorite, Year of Decision, 1846, a sprawling epic, the print equivalent of a four-hour cinematic extravaganza, that brought into brilliant perspective a number of easily overlooked events converging on the Polk administration (itself easily overlooked) that truly redefined America. . . .
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