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Reflections on the historian's craft and its place in American culture, from a master craftsman History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we can't make wise decisions about where we should be going. But while the nature of memory is a... read more

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GARRY WILLS'S BOOK is ostensibly about The Federalist, those eighty-five essays written in 1787-88 to promote the ratification of the newly framed Constitution.

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  1. Gordon S. Wood (Author)

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