In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that ... end result of the religious transformations was a religiously plural America in which different groups coexisted peacefully instead of separately dominating specific areas of the continent as they had until 1680. Jon Butler successfully argues that modern American culture has its foundations in the ethnic, economic, political, and religious upheavals of the period from ...

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... ;very few, if any, of the people who call McCandless incompetent have ever done it either." Through his journalistic approach in his long form feature piece, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer is able to piece together the chilling story of Chris McCandless and give a better understanding of this self-made vagabond through extensive research and Krakauer's own personal connection with ... ...

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