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A History of New York
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The Dutch founding as a joke that still remembers names, land, and a people. Comedy, not a chronicle.
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Read a chapter so you know where the Dutch-American myth came from. Do not read it as the settlement. Irving is laughing at a people he also claims, which is an old New York habit. The laughs are often good. They are a poor substitute for the patents, the churches, and the land records.
Pair it with one serious page about New Netherland, or it will own the whole memory.
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Industry and Household and Piety and Courage are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
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The eight
- 4Industry
Governors and land. The work is buried under the joke.
- 4Household
Households appear as types. The joke needs them ridiculous.
- 3Piety
Religion is part of the costume.
- 3Courage
No one is asked to be brave. They are asked to be amusing.
- 5Republic
It is a civic myth for New York, told by a New Yorker who knows it is a myth.
- 5Temperance
The excess is verbal. It does not corrupt so much as it floats.
- 5Truth
He signals the fiction. Readers who want a history will be misled anyway.
- 6Stewardship
It fixed the Dutch colony in the American imagination, which is a kind of keeping.
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