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Product Description: Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. The theme is a vital one because a greater percentage of people live alone today than at any other time in U...read more
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9780674066762 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 14, 2013, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Robert A.
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9780674023222 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 25, 1997, cover price $30.50
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9780312911799 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: This practical step-by-step guide to developing psychic abilities can enable anyone to tap into the hidden powers of the mind.
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9780674728684 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 3, 2014, cover price $31.50
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9780674514652 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 7, 1984, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: Argues that after the American Revolution lawyers replaced clergy as the dominant intellectual force, and looks at how legal educations affected the aesthetics of early American writers
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9780674514669 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1987), cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Argues that after the American Revolution lawyers replaced clergy as the dominant intellectual force, and looks at how legal educations affected the aesthetics of early American writers
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9780231175364 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $60.00
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9780137323708 | Prentice Hall Direct, September 1, 1980, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Book by Ferguson, Robert A.
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9780137323883 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1977, cover price $17.95
Reading the Early Republic focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave narratives of the early American nation are richer and more intricate than modern readers have perceived. Rebellion, slavery, and treason--the mingled stories of the Revolution--still haunt national thought. Robert Ferguson shows that the legacy that made the country remains the idea of what it is still trying to become. He cuts through the pervading nostalgia about national beginnings to recapture the manic-depressive tones of its first expression. He also has much to say about the reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic, the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the original claims of prosperity as national virtue. Reading the Early Republic uses the living textual tradition against history to prove its case. The first formative writings are more than sacred artifacts. They remain the touchstones of the durable promise and the problems in republican thought
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9780674013384 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 30, 2004, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: Reading the Early Republic focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era.
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9780674022362 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $29.00
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9780226243252 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 30, 2007, cover price $31.00
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9780226243269 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 2008, cover price $20.00
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