In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Brandan P. Buck
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Gems of American History: The Lecturer’s Art, by Walter McDougall. Encounter Books, 2025, 336 pages, $32.99. It is a common observation that we Americans do not know our history. Nevertheless, we are awash in historical argument, usually of the clumsily inaccurate and politically motivated variety. Be it the comparisons to Philadelphia 1776, Munich 1938, or…
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Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, by David Austin Walsh, Yale University Press, 303 pages, $35. Since 2016, trained historians and writers of popular histories have sought to explain the rise of populism by looking to the distant past for its origins. Such works seek to reconceptualize our understanding of American…