Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 By Jackson Lears, Harper Collins, 448 pp., $27.99 This is high-concept cultural history at its provocative best. Lears is a polymath and Big Thinker. Essentially, he says the post–Civil War yearning for rebirth—moral, religious, physical, psychological, financial—shaped the modern American Dream and our country’s politics, …
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