American Ideals

by Norman Foerster

Book Overview

"Before our war we were to Europe but a huge mob of adventurers and shopkeepers. Leigh Hunt expressed it well enough when he said that he could never think of America without seeing a gigantic counter stretched all along the seaboard.'' It is the Civil War that James Russell Lowell referred to in this passage; it is the Civil War that revealed once more, as the War of Independence had also revealed, the idealism of those remote forbears of ours who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516804686
• ISBN13: 9781516804689
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"