Volume 6, Number 2 · February 17, 1966
The Age of Deference
By Eric L. McKitrick
The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy
by David Hackett Fischer
Harper & Row, 455 pp., $8.95
Ever since World War II, much of the intellectual energy of American historians has been preoccupied with those special distinctions, both major and marginal, that have marked off American society from every other society in the world. The necessary work of elaborating these newly perceived distinctions, and the complementary need to minimize old ones or to sweep them out of sight entirely, has led to various excesses. And this in turn has created an altogether new need—the need for an intermediary language, an idiom with which to mediate between our older and our newer perceptions.
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