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Whipple, Wayne The Story of the American Flag
Applewood Books 2000 1-55709-501-9 / 9781557095015 Paperback
Children's Literature Originally published in 1910, this history of the American flag is of interest in its own right as a historical document. In 1910, the United States was an industrial giant with modest colonial holdings. The nation had recently completed a "splendid little war" against Spain and was in an era of prosperity. Immigration into the nation was peaking as new waves of foreigners were sweeping into the country in search of better lives. However, little thought was being given to the gathering threat of war across the sea in Europe, a war that was to engulf the world in a few short years. Placed in its historical context, Whipple's small primer for citizens interested in learning flag trivia and history seems to fit. Taken out of that context and placed ninety years later into the modern age, his prose seems not only antiquated, but trivial. While there are a number of basic facts concerning the evolution of the Stars and Stripes, much of the book is full of saccharine rhetoric. The absorption of the Philippine Islands, which led to a brutal thirty year guerrilla war with local freedom fighters, is described as a liberation of "dusky" people. At a time when AfricanAmericans were being regularly lynched in the South, Whipple describes America as a land of total freedom and kindness. Representative of the textual style of the age of American imperialism, this small book serves as a reminder that historical writing is a product of the spirit of the times in which it was constructed. Even the black and white illustrations bespeak not history, but propaganda and romanticism. This is a book that history teachers may find of value as an example of slanted publications and documents. However, this bookis not recommended for any sort of instruction. 2000, Applewood Books, Ages 12 up, $12.95. Reviewer: Greg M. Romaneck
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