Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir

by Forrest McDonald

Book Overview

Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. The NEH's sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer, he is one of our most eminent historians and the author of numerous provocative works on the early American republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Renowned for his sly wit and iconoclasm, he is also a conservative in a mostly liberal profession, a man who believes that his discipline has been subverted by those who serve public policy agendas. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700613293
• ISBN13: 9780700613298
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"