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I liked this book. It shined light on some less known people of the revolutionary generation that had a great impact on the culture rather than the oft studied persons who established our political system. It was well written and for the most part engaging. I enjoyed it.
Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context.
Joseph J. Ellis is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and author of the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, and Passionate Sage.
Loading...| Preface | ix | |
| Part 1 | Premonitions and Paradoxes in the Revolutionary Era | |
| Chapter 1 | Premonitions: An American Athens | 3 |
| Chapter 2 | Paradoxes: Culture and Capitalism | 23 |
| Part 2 | Profiles | |
| Chapter 3 | Charles Willson Peale: Portrait of the American Artist as Virtuous Entrepreneur | 41 |
| Chapter 4 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge: The Novelist as Reluctant Democrat | 73 |
| Chapter 5 | William Dunlap: The Dramatist as Benevolent Patriarch | 113 |
| Chapter 6 | Noah Webster: The Connecticut Yankee as Nationalist | 161 |
| Epilogue: New Critics: Toward Emerson | 213 | |
| Notes | 223 | |
| Index | 252 |
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