Fighting Over the Founders - 9781479884100

Fighting Over the FoundersHow We Remember the American Revolution\nAuthor(s): Andrew M. Schocket\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479884100, 978-1479884100\nSynopsis\nExplores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. \n The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in US history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation's aspirations. Americans' increased fascination with the Revolution over the past\n two decades represents more than i.