The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr

by Ed White, Michael J. Drexler, Ed White

Book Overview

In
American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical
and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and
Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the
specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements
clustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founders
took shape as a significant cultural system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479842532
• ISBN13: 9781479842537
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"