After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture

by Joseph J. Ellis

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393322335
• ISBN13: 9780393322330
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"