Harry Jaffa and the demise of the old republic.(IN DEFENSE OF THE OLD REPUBLIC)(Essay) From: Modern Age | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Shain, Barry Alan | COPYRIGHT 2007 Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The writing of history, as we have learned from authors as diverse as Thucydides, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Butter-field, Collingwood, and Oakeshott can and has been done in strikingly different ways while serving radically different purposes. We shouldn't, therefore, be surprised to find that much the same might be said of American history. This is all the more likely because of the importance of history to America, a polity lacking some of the defining characteristics of national iden...