In Need of a New Myth
Eric Foner: American Myth-Making, 4 July 2024
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
by Richard Slotkin.
Harvard, 512 pp., £29.95, March,978 0 674 29238 3 Show More
by Richard Slotkin.
Harvard, 512 pp., £29.95, March,
“... expression of this revised Myth of the Founding could be found in the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision in 1857, which, Slotkin points out, claimed to be an exercise in what today is called judicial ‘originalism’. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney’s infamous pronouncement in Dred Scott that Black persons had ‘no ... ”