TY - JOUR
AU - Klingle, Matthew
AB -  BOOK REVIEWS the words ‘rebel’ and ‘treason’ have been made holy in the American language.” Oddly enough, Carton does not mention these early formulations of “patriotic treason,” in spite of their usefulness for his book’s theme. He is clear, however, that the racially egalitarian Brown must be considered a “patriot”: Brown’s actions were a form of patriotic activism that helped end slavery, start the Civil War, and “set the United States on a path of radical and painful transformation” (p. 12). Brown was asking America to be America, Carton explains. Carton is also clear that the nation remains partially achieved, that Brown’s path of renewal is one “we travel still” (p. 12). Shifting to an activist voice, Carton argues that Brown’s form of patriotism is seriously lacking in today’s political arena—that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence “hold little interest . . . for those who currently define . . . American patriotism” (p. 346). Instead, activists like Brown sustain all hope “of fulfilling our revolutionary potential” (p. 346). Carton’s insertion of the occasional rallying call might seem a further flaw. But readers who are distracted by these political salvos will have missed the point of his 
TI - Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
JF - The New England Quarterly
DO - 10.1162/tneq.2007.80.2.343
DA - 2007-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/mit-press/boston-s-back-bay-the-story-of-america-s-greatest-nineteenth-century-bfJJvjX16R
SP - 343
EP - 346
VL - 80
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -