American Myth American Reality Author:James Oliver Robertson I read American Myth, American REality with an increasing sense that with its publication we will be able to welcome a perceptive, open, imaginative, and learned new historical commentator into our midst. The book is a remarkable demonstration of the frequent interaction between past and present. Other historians have shown the contrasts or ir... more »onies between American myths and American realities, but it has been left to Robertson to make clear that myths are simply seen hypocrisy or failed idealism, robertson has found fresh meaning and elegantly he distills new insights into the nature of the American experience from the hitherto ignored grain of myth. His chappter on the meaning of sports is itself almost worth the price of the book. Happily, too, the quality of his writing is equal to his imagination. Carl N. Degler, Stanford University.« less