A Season of Youth: The American Revolution & the Historical Imaginative

"Its methodological freshness--the use of literature and art as historical artifacts, its focus on the popular as a subject for study, the introduction of anthropological tools--alone warrants attention, and its substantive contribution to our understanding of the meaning of the Revolution for American culture is large. Kammen's book will continue to inform us for many years."--Catherine L. Albanese, New York History