Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City

by Edward L. Widmer

Book Overview

This fascinating study examines the meteoric career of a vigorous intellectual movement rising out of the Age of Jackson. As Americans argued over their destiny in the decades preceding the Civil War, an outspoken new generation of "ultra-democratic" writers entered the fray, staking out positions on politics, literature, art, and any other territory they could annex. They called themselves Young America--and they proclaimed a "Manifest Destiny" to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195140621
• ISBN13: 9780195140620
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"