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Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (review)

the chief American myths have generated. Hughes expresses an intellectual and moral debt to Robert Bellah (who wrote an excellent foreword for the book), and his study of American myths is in the spirit of Bellah’s Habits of the Heart in its aim to critically reappropriate American traditions. In the post–September 11 climate of international threat, many Americans do not appear eager to hear a critical or “politically correct” message that they, like all other peoples in the world, must learn to bear the guilt as well as hymn the glory of their national history. Yet this message must be heard, for the sake of realism as well as moral responsibility. Myths America Lives By is, in the end, a valuable book because it makes the message compelling.