The Air-Line to Seattle

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The Air-Line to Seattle is written by Kenneth S. Lynn and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226498336 (ISBN 10) and 9780226498331 (ISBN 13).

In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly candid book, Kenneth S. Lynn argues that too many of our current commentators on the American past are out of touch with historical reality. His targets range from the currently fashionable but fantastic idea that the Declaration of Independence derives from a communitarian rather than individualistic philosophy to misinterpretations of the lives of Emerson, Walter Lippmann, Hemingway, and Max Perkins. In each case Lynn reveals the tendency of literary and intellectual historians to impose precooked formulas upon the evidence they profess to study.