Jim said: "This trend is so pronounced that any budding historian who announces that he or she wishes to focus on the political history of the early republic and it most prominent practitioners is generally regarded as having inadvertently confessed a form of intellectual bankruptcy (Founding Brothers:The Revolutioonary Generation, 12)"

My quyestion is this: What is really meant by this comment. I would look at myself as a knowledgable about early Am. history, including local historical stories. I was just curious about it.