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… history over the past two decades, one yearns for studies with a longer or broader sweep. The profession finally … own Voyagers to the West (1986), in which, among other accomplishments, these eminent historians synthesize great … social preeminence. As Wood does provocatively at different points in his story, he here invokes the example of …

… It tends to be reductionist rather than holistic. It is readier to take its subject apart, dividing it into its ever … more. His appendices show a like devotion to isolated points of insignificant detail. (What is impressive is how … be history because the area is too small to comprehend selfcontained historical happenings. A history covering the …

… which the first man was killed that the bucket fell. He had died earlier that night in the rock quarry of the dam, and … us, bunched against the rock wall, were five men. As if also released by Cap’s question, one of them suddenly broke … the camp-bound busses. They caught cups of coffee at the commissary. A man killed on the shift and the bucket fell. …

… middle-class American contemplated no other end than to die quietly in his bed, attended by his physician and, … Fascism is a creation of the last fifteen years; and while Communism is older, the average American who is now … For the normal young man is a bit of a fool. He is also the strength and hope of the nation, to be sure. He is …

… For the writer it is forever in the course of being studied through doing and new doing, and wouldn't last very … insight–that too is gone, displaced. Looking backward can't compete with looking forward with the story in progress–that … the doors behind me–you never dream the essentials can be simple again, within one story. But the vital …