William Cooper's Town : Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
by Alan Taylor
2020-05-14 00:14:31
William Cooper's Town : Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
by Alan Taylor
2020-05-14 00:14:31
An innovative work of biography, social history and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided Ameri...
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An innovative work of biography, social history and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. In William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuaision on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, Alan Taylor demonstrates how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social forms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of their frontier.
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