Seven Wise Men of Colonial America

by Richard M Gummere and Richard M. Gummere

Richard M. Gummere, writing with characteristic warmth and humor, explores the attitudes toward the classics of seven prominent colonial Americans--Hugh Jones, Robert Calef, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Davies, Henry Melhior Muhlenberg, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Paine.

A companion volume to the author's The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition, this book provides separate, absorbing biographies of these "seven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674284496
• ISBN13: 9780674284494
• Release Date: February 1967
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"