Book Review

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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. By John Seelye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 699 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8078-2415-1.)

The size of this book is impossible to ignore: at almost 700 typographically dense pages, it represents a research effort of Herculean proportions on a topic the author himself half-jokingly describes as "dubious and dull." It is hard not to be impressed by the energy and subtlety of Memory's Nation—and hard to avoid wishing it a good deal shorter. . . .

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