A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination

"An exhilarating discussion of the ambiguous relationships between traitor and patriot, revolutionary and loyalist, innovator and conservative, romantic Natural Goodness and a rational skepticism about the damned human race." -- Wallace Stegner "A major contribution to cultural history…Kammen's book is a work of rich and imaginative scholarship, exciting and important for what it explicates and deeply disturbing for what it implies." -- George Dangerfield, The Washington Post "Kammen seeks the meaning of the American Revolution in its continuing impact on the American imagination and, wisely, looks to American literature and art as well as to more strictly historical records for his sources." -- James F. Beard