The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
A masterly quarter-century of commentary on the discipline of American history.—Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book ReviewThis book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy years in their company, writes historian Edmund S. Morgan in the introduction to this landmark collection. The Genuine Article gathers together twenty-five of Morgan's finest essays over forty years, commenting brilliantly on everything from Jamestown to James Madison. In revealing the private lives of Those Sexy Puritans and The Price of Honor on Southern plantations, T…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-34784-5
- EAN: 9780393347845
- Produktnummer: 34247171
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'645 KB
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Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy's Gold Medal. The author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many others.
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