"Live" with TAE: one of today's most readable historians discusses religion, regional identity, political correctness, America's founding, the nation's wars, and leadership.(Interview)
American Enterprise, The, March, 2006 by Kauffman, Bill
David Hackett Fischer, one of our country's foremost historians, has described his work as "a deep affirmation of American values." He combines social history with classic narrative, a synthesis that reaches its apex in Paul Revere's Ride (1994) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing (2004).
Fischer's ambitious "cultural history of the United States" includes the much-praised Albion's Seed (1989), which identifies the enduring folkways that British immigrants carried to the New World, and his latest book Liberty and Freedom (2004).
Professor Fischer, who will deliver the American Enterprise Institute's annual Irving Kristol Lecture in D.C. on March 8, spoke with TAE associate editor Bill Kauffman in his office at Brandeis University....
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