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Title: The Free and the Unfree (A Pelican Original) by Peter N. Carroll, David W. Noble ISBN: 0-14-022038-0 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1977 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Solid start, undermined by 20th Century Pie in the Skying
Comment: This book started out phenomenaly. And really I'm not trying to down this book, I encourage any student of history to read it, however I just felt that the way inwhich the 20th Century was dealt with was suspect and haphazard. It is a fast paced read so every sentences counts. I felt it was a great overview of 18th and 19th Century America. Yet late in the work these two authors begin to operate in theoretical conjecture that I feel is a bit much. If anything I hope that History in the future will better concentrate on the qualitative experience of the individual in history, instead of making sweaping generalizations that reflect little of individual experience and seem to provide more fodder for theoretical feuds. I was suprised by this, because the premise of the work seems leftist in principle, yet doesn't stick to this theme passionatly. Never the less I feel too much of americana is made claim to in this work as justification for the authors grand themes where other aspects of American history is ignored. For instance the use of the ideals of The Beat Poets as exemplifying a growing perpensity for Americans to find a new frontier within them selves and a looking westward from San Francisco to the East logicaly meant an embrace of Eastern Religion. He's put two and two together and quickly got four 'cept it isen't four. There was a great deal more. He states that the Beat poets were a product of the de-sanctification of land and uses the disintegration of taboos about death to jutify this paradigm shift--quoting all the while Ginsberg and Corso, but ignores the chief Beat Jack Keroauc who viewed the 'Road' the American continent as all holy as an Existentialist tapestry of places and faces that was all sacred...why..because it existed. Too much Pie in the Sky, but its good until the Progressive era.

Rating: 4
Summary: Both Sides
Comment: Peter Carroll and David Noble have written a brilliant book dealing with the founding and development of the Americas. This book opens the readers eyes and suggests many things that a learner of American history through the standard text book are deprived. I have also been privileged to be enrolled in one of Professor Nobles American Studies courses in which he had me constantly thinking about, questioning and searching for the truth of American history and development.