![]() Some little known facts throw new light on what is happening today. Perhaps the most important chapter in the book, viewed, at this moment in our history, is Chapter VIII -awn Without where he sums up the effect of the Reconstruction period in the place of the Negro, not only in the South but the North. Out of each comes a new America, and Professor Degler traces the emerging factors, the significant changes- and behind all, the continuity of tradition, basically conservative. The areas of development are threefold: the War of Independence, the War for the Nation and the Great Depression. ![]() Some of our preconceptions become outmoded shibboleths probably other take their place. ![]() The chronology and the biography of our history are here of small moment for these one needs a systematic orderly approach as groundwork. The past is seen through the lens of the present and events, their causes and results, emerge in different relationship and with different emphases. Here is a challenging new way to approach American history and this reader found the book stimulating, provocative and revealing as an interpretation of the social forces in the building of a nation. ![]()
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