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Review title: Fading light, fading glory?
Product review: These co-authors have written for an audience that will already be convinced of the worthwhileness of their thesis, i.e., that America is the new "chosen land." For a non-American, looking backwards in history from the present day,the argument is not quite so convincing. Certainly, the faith and courage exhibited by the earliest pioneeers makes for inspirational reading and, to be fair, the authors work quite hard to sustain the impetus of their presentation. The narrative lags seriously in a few places and the writers' uncertainties are made apparent to the reader, which hardly adds to the power of the argument. As a work of historical criticism it rates about one star but because the anecdotes are interesting I rated it at two stars.
