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This wide ranging selection of essays by a renowned English scholar explores American history, literature, and culture. Many aspects and periods of American history, life, and thought are examined: military, political, biographical, comparative, and more. The text is scholarly, yet readable. The essays cover the young nation, George Washington, European attitudes toward the United States and vice versa, anti-Americanism, and American writers. This work is invaluable as supplemental reading for courses in American history, American literature, and American studies.
In Search of America devotes an entire section to the early problems of the young nation in achieving intellectual and artistic, as well as political, independence. Military, biographical, and other aspects of George Washington provide thought-provoking material. The temperament and talent of American writers, including Stephen Crane, Henry Adams, and Willa Cather are considered.
Sommario
Introduction
Backward Glances
Birth PangsCrèvecour Revisited
George Washington's Generalship
"They Will All Speak English": Some Cultural Consequences of Independence
The Presidential Elections of 1789 and 1792
Madison as Commander-in-Chief
Monumental WashingtonJohn Marshall's George Washington
The Two Georges: The President and the King
The Doubled Images: Washington and Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson's George Washington
Victorian America and AfterFrances Trollope
America at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Mark Twain's "English" Novels
Stephen Crane and the American Background of Maggie
What Was the Matter with Henry Adams?
Willa Cather and Frederick Jackson Turner
Old World, New WorldEuropean Images of America
New World, Old World: The Historical Antithesis
American Watersheds
America's Imaginary Wars
European Anti-Americanism
Index
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MARCUS CUNLIFFE (1922-1990) was a British-born historian who wrote more than a dozen books on American history and literature. A commentator on American life, he had been University Professor at George Washington University since 1980. He was a prolific writer, focusing extensively on George Washington and the early history of the United States. He authored, among others, The Nation Takes Shape, American Presidents and the Presidency, The Ages of Man: From Sav-age to Sew-age, Soldiers and Civilians, and The Literature of the United States.
