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Inventing American Tradition

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Inventing American Tradition

By Jack David Eller

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About the book

What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the US national anthem? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, none more so than in the United States--a nation born with relative indifference, if not hostility, to the past. Most Americans would be surprised to learn just how recent (and controversial) the origins of their traditions are, as well as how those origins are often related ...Show more

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9781780239866

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Reaktion Books

Published year

2018

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1

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Inventing American Tradition

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Hardcover

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