Matt and Alex (@Alecks_Guns) talk about the first popular "American" novel in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Spy," and how Americans have learned to view the revolution. Special thanks to Grant Ertl of Aquanaut Media for the Literary Hangover podcast artwork.

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References:

The Spy, read by Flo Gibson (available through Audible)

The Spy, read by the Librivox community.

The James Fenimore Cooper Society at State University of New York College at Oneonta

“The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America” by Gerald Horne

"Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe ," by J Gerald Kennedy

"Who Reads an American Book?" (1820) by Reverend Sydney Smith

“American Revolutions: A Continental History,” 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor

“Fenimore Cooper's America” by Alan Taylor, History Today. 46.2 (Feb. 1996)

“The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution,” by Mike Rapport

“Cooper's The Spy and the Popular Spy Novel,” by Bruce A. Rosenberg, American Transcendental Quarterly (1993)