Volume 28, Number 6 · April 16, 1981
The Oedipal Revolution
By Edmund S. Morgan
American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution
by Peter Shaw
Harvard University Press, 279 pp., $17.50
This book was inevitable. Someone was bound to write it sooner or later, and better sooner than later. Peter Shaw brings together a series of disparate psychological, anthropological, and historical insights and perspectives and develops them into a new interpretation of the American Revolution, an interpretation that some readers will see as a work of synthetic genius and others as a projection of credible scholarship into incredible flights of fantasy.
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