A really interesting book, though I'm not sure it doesn't suffer from most of the problems of like microhistories in some way? I would love to have seen this on a more macro-scale, though I'm not sure if the documentation is there (and this is my problem with early America as a field, not necessarily with this book alone.) I would have also loved to see their framework be used way more explicitly, rather than kind of namedropped in the beginning and then just sort of falling away in favor of archival reading work.

All of that being said, it was definitely an interesting premise and I could absolutely see using this in a classroom with students--it's short enough to assign in whole, not just in excerpt, and I think it might have some good things to teach about writing as well as about the subject matter.