4. Reading the Family Tree

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Contemporary Fiction in Reverse 41
6. 2. The Making of the Greatest Generation 81
7. 3. Colson Whitehead’s History of the United States 121
8. 4. Reading the Family Tree 165
9. 5. The Rise of the Recent Historical Novel 205
10. Coda: Excavating the Present 241
11. Notes 249
12. Works Cited 299
13. Index 325