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Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
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The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
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April 1, 2005
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Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas * David Hackett Fischer * New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 * x, 851 pp. * $50.00
David Hackett Fischer's Liberty and Freedom is a sweeping, massive volume (851 pages, 118 chapters, more than 400 illustrations) focused on what the author views as two fundamentally American principles, or principles fundamental to the American national narrative. Treating liberty and freedom as folkways, as American values grounded in "a set of customs, traditions, and folk beliefs" (p. 716), Fischer delves into the ways in which these folkways were invented and then repeatedly reshaped and revitalized throughout the course of American ...
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