Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

by Philip F Gura

Book Overview

Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness. Animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance, they became prophets of a new moral order: if only their fellow countrymen would call on each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674659546
• ISBN13: 9780674659544
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.2"