| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America: Essays in Honor of J. R. Pole. Ed. by Rebecca Starr. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xii, 276 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7425-2076-5.)

This collection of essays grew out of a conference held at Cambridge University in 1995 to honor J. R. Pole. It includes the work of several young historians trained by Professor Pole as well as contributions from distinguished scholars in the field of early American history. While the quality of the separate essays is a bit uneven, most provide interesting insights into various aspects of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century American society. Despite this volume's subtitle, however, the essays do not deal in any coherent manner with the fashioning of a national political culture in early America. Consequently, readers who expect the "linked" essays in this volume to "identify, integrate, and explore the nature of some of [the] chief sinews" (p. 4) of such a culture will be disappointed; only one of the seven essays addresses that issue in any but the most tangential manner.

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