Description
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 liberalism--each 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.
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/17/2002
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780393322330
ISBN10: 0393322335
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- History | United States | 19th Century