Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.
"A trenchant and illuminating study of three great Westerns and a
convincing case for their importance both to political psychology
and to our own self-understanding as American citizens."—C. D.
C. Reeve, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Robert Pippin's study of three great Westerns is a fine
meditation on the place of heroism in democracy and the ambiguous
relationship between legend and history in the making of heroes. It
can stand with the best recent books on the Western as a genre, but
it is driven by a thought all its own: the difficulty of the search
for order, and the elusive 'possibility of an American
politics.'"—David Bromwich, Yale University
“Pippin's marvelous book is a more than worthy successor to the
classic essays on the Western by André Bazin and Robert Warshow.
This volume is remarkable for its clarity and depth of
argument.”—George Wilson, University of Southern California
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