Joseph J. Ellis

After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through portraits of four figuresCharles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah WebsterJoseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations.

An entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions of conservatism and liberalismeach of the four men depicted in this book had a vision of what kind of society post-Revolutionary America should be. Through portraits of these bellwether figures, the prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis examines the currents that were shaping the new country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393072303
• Artikelnr.: 59591250

Autorenporträt

Joseph J. Ellis is the best-selling author of twelve previous books, including American Sphinx, which won the National Book Award, and Founding Brothers, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Plymouth, Vermont.