Overview
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
- | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2002
- | Number of Pages: 274 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0393322335
- | ISBN-13: 9780393322330
