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Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. John Seelye. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock is John Seelye's intellectual history of this mythical landing place. As it was for Michael Kamman in Mystic Chords of Memory, the past for Seelye, who teaches American literature at the University of Florida, is a tool of the ever-changing present. Plymouth Rock, therefore, is an idea as much as it is a boulder. His exhaustive text, 645 pages, often gets away from the Rock, even from Plymouth, because the story he tells is...
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