This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are
thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during
nearly seventy years in their company, writes historian Edmund S. Morgan
in the introduction to this landmark collection. The Genuine Article
gathers together twenty-five of Morgan's finest essays over forty years,
commenting brilliantly on everything from Jamestown to James Madison. In
revealing the private lives of Those Sexy Puritans and The Price of
Honor on Southern plantations, The Genuine Article details the daily
lives of early Americans, along with The Great Political Fiction that
continues to this day. As one of our most celebrated historians,
Morgan's characteristic insight and penetrating wisdom are not to be
missed in this extraordinarily rich portrait of early America and its
Founding Fathers.