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© 2012 by E. L. Doctorow E. L. DOCTOROW, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1991, is the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor of American Literature at New York University. He has been shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His recent publications include The March (2005), which received the 2006 pen/Faulkner Award and the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and was a Pulitzer Prize 1⁄2nalist; Homer & Langley (2009); and All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories (2011). In the seventeenth century, North America was conceived by Europeans as an escape from Europe, a New Found Land for religious separatism and the aggregation of unspoken-for wealth. It was in this era of colonial activity that the seeds of the American narrative had to have been planted. England, France, Spain, and Holland all had staked a claim, but after a hundred and 1⁄2fty or so years of farming and trading and warring, somehow the English communities along the East Coast prevailed–they prevailed over the French and the Dutch, over the wilderness, over the sometimes hostile native populations, and rather late in the game, they prevailed over the English monarchy. And so the breath of Self-Determination was slapped into our country at its birth.

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  2012-01-01

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  DOI 10.1162/daed_a_00133
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