dkearns72’s last login was Saturday, February 21 2009.
Well, took me a bit but I finally finished it. She's great. I first came across Lepore in the New Yorker also (i thinkit was the breast pump article), but I had no idea she is such a prolific writer. It seems like there isn't anything out there that she can't write about. The Name of War was absolutely fascinating. Not only did it read like a murder mystery, but her use of sources, although scant, weaves togeather a great narrative. And she digs digs digs! The whole chapter about puritan dress and houses and what they signified culturally was wonderful. She did, though, skip over the eighteenth century (maybe 5 pages dedicated to it), and I think that her argument about "playing indian" as a way to NOT be british would have been strenghtened if she coved the revolutionary period more. All in all, i think it is great. Identity and culture and literature... she covers so many topics. It's no suprise that her education wasn't that of a "typical" historian. After finishing this, i went back through every issue of the NY-er here and read what articles i could find. She is also co-founder of a great little website called Common Place-- what she calls "a bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine." My type of history site.
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